More local funding decisions were made in Sacramento, as the state government picked up responsibilities that could no longer be financed at the local level because the property tax was the principal revenue source for local governments.
According to the thinking in Berlin, if the new package of policies must involve a European solution rather than a mish-mash of national strategies, it will also have to be financed at the European level, possibly through a special levy, since the billions involved would blow a gaping hole in the existing EU budget and national governments would balk at footing the bills.
Nearly 9 in 10 dollars spent by the 31 poorest school districts come from state taxes based on the constitution's guarantee of a "thorough and efficient" education for all children -- and requiring that the poorest districts be financed at the same level as the richest.
The need for such commitments underscores the fact that many low-income countries will require substantial development assistance for many years, probably for decades, if their health systems are to be financed at the minimum level identified by the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health [ 25, 26].
Republicans say the shifts would be tantamount to Congress' relinquishing its constitutional power to designate what programs are financed at what levels.
If it were financed at the level of A.L.S., they say, a treatment could be just a few years away.
Although the money is financed at UK level, that debt counts as an asset on the Scottish government's books because it is notionally owed to it by hundreds of thousands of former students, as its share of the UK student funding pot.
Environmentalists say that if programs had been financed at the old levels, demand would be about 500 megawatts lower -- equivalent to the output of a medium-size power plant.
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