The “fiscal mismatch” is responsible for all but one of the following trends since 1960:
a. increased intergovernmental transfers.
b. increased importance of fiscal federalism.
c. increased indirect control of state and local affairs by the national government.
d. increased direct control of state and local affairs by the national government.
ANS: D
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