GOV 310L Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Marble Cake, Layer Cake, Taxing And Spending Clause
Document Summary
World war ii and cold war built up federal government. Supreme court also gave new justifications on what congress controls. Spending clause - power to collect taxes and provide general welfare. Helvering v. davis (1937) - discretion belongs to congress unless the choice is clearly wrong. Cooperative federalism - layer cake or. marble cake. Layer cake - government has layers but are separated and do not interact with each other. Marble cake - government has layers but they mix together and work with each other. Categorical - money is given for specific purpose by federal government. Block - money is given and can be used for anything. Expenditures - almost as much as federal government. Policy - laboratories of democracy - place where ideas/policies/concepts and such can be tested to see how well they work. Social programs - race to bottom - incentive to spend less and less > everyone goes down.
