- Consulting Editors
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- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Introduction: State and Local Government Finance in The United States
- The Constitutional Frameworks of State and Local Government Finance
- Federalism Trends, Tensions, and Outlook
- State and Local Government Finance: Why It Matters
- State and Local Governments and The National Economy
- The Evolving Financial Architecture of State And Local Governments
- Profiles of Local Government Finance
- Federal Preemption of Revenue Autonomy
- State Intergovernmental Grant Programs
- State and Local Fiscal Institutions in Recession and Recovery
- Real Property Tax
- State Personal Income Taxes
- State Corporate Income Taxes
- Entity Taxation of Business Enterprises
- Implications Of a Federal Value-Added Tax for State and Local Governments
- Retail Sales and use Taxation
- Local Revenue Diversification: User Charges, Sales Taxes, and Income Taxes
- State Tax Administration: Seven Problems in Search of a Solution
- Revenue Estimation
- Providing and Financing K–12 Education
- The Social Safety Net, Health Care, and the Great Recession
- Transportation Finance
- Housing Policy: The Evolving Subnational Role
- Capital Budgeting and Spending
- Financial Markets and State and Local Governments
- Infrastructure Privatization in The New Millennium
- Financial Emergencies: Default and Bankruptcy
- Government Financial-Reporting Standards: Reviewing the Past and Present, Anticipating the Future
- Pullback Management: State Budgeting Under Fiscal Stress
- Public Employee Pensions and Investments
- Accomplishing State Budget Policy and Process Reforms
- Fiscal Austerity and the Future of Federalism
- Achieving Fiscal Sustainability for State and Local Governments
- The Intergovernmental Grant System
- Community Associations at Middle Age: Considering the Options
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
The Great Recession and its aftermath resurrected concerns that state and local governments would begin to default on their obligations. Many feared that the long and successful history of state and local borrowing in the capital markets was destined to end. As spending needs swamped resources, finding easier ways out of public debt than repaying it as promised might become politically fashionable. This article explains and evaluates the various mechanisms that might deal with municipal and state defaults and insolvencies in the United States. It first explores the historical underpinnings of restructuring municipal debt, providing examples of successes and failures of such efforts in the United States. The era of the Great Depression of the 1930s and its precursors is examined, as is the existing statutory framework for municipal bankruptcy in the United States. Sovereign debt by states and its resolution is also discussed.
Keywords: bankruptcy, Great Recession, local borrowing, local governments, capital markets, public debt, municipal debt
James E. Spiotto is a Partner at Chapman and Cutler LLP, Chicago, Illinois.
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- Consulting Editors
- [UNTITLED]
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Introduction: State and Local Government Finance in The United States
- The Constitutional Frameworks of State and Local Government Finance
- Federalism Trends, Tensions, and Outlook
- State and Local Government Finance: Why It Matters
- State and Local Governments and The National Economy
- The Evolving Financial Architecture of State And Local Governments
- Profiles of Local Government Finance
- Federal Preemption of Revenue Autonomy
- State Intergovernmental Grant Programs
- State and Local Fiscal Institutions in Recession and Recovery
- Real Property Tax
- State Personal Income Taxes
- State Corporate Income Taxes
- Entity Taxation of Business Enterprises
- Implications Of a Federal Value-Added Tax for State and Local Governments
- Retail Sales and use Taxation
- Local Revenue Diversification: User Charges, Sales Taxes, and Income Taxes
- State Tax Administration: Seven Problems in Search of a Solution
- Revenue Estimation
- Providing and Financing K–12 Education
- The Social Safety Net, Health Care, and the Great Recession
- Transportation Finance
- Housing Policy: The Evolving Subnational Role
- Capital Budgeting and Spending
- Financial Markets and State and Local Governments
- Infrastructure Privatization in The New Millennium
- Financial Emergencies: Default and Bankruptcy
- Government Financial-Reporting Standards: Reviewing the Past and Present, Anticipating the Future
- Pullback Management: State Budgeting Under Fiscal Stress
- Public Employee Pensions and Investments
- Accomplishing State Budget Policy and Process Reforms
- Fiscal Austerity and the Future of Federalism
- Achieving Fiscal Sustainability for State and Local Governments
- The Intergovernmental Grant System
- Community Associations at Middle Age: Considering the Options
- Index
