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Let Educators Educate, Let Builders Build: Making A Case For School Facility Privatization, John Pizzo
Let Educators Educate, Let Builders Build: Making A Case For School Facility Privatization, John Pizzo
John Pizzo
No abstract provided.
Turf Wars: Territoriality And The Allocation Of Sales And Use Taxes In California, Kevin Schmitt
Turf Wars: Territoriality And The Allocation Of Sales And Use Taxes In California, Kevin Schmitt
Kevin Schmitt
Sales and use tax revenue provides an important source of funding for California’s local governments, particularly its cities. Under the Bradley-Burns Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law, local governments may enact sales and use tax ordinances and contract with the state to manage collection and distribution. The current allocation system, known as the situs-based system, provides for distribution to local government based on the physical location of the retailer. Although such a system has logical appeal, in practice it has proven highly problematic, promoting unproductive competition among local governments for scarce revenue.
Reform of the situs-based allocation process has …
The Management Of Public Natural Resource Wealth, Paul Rose
The Management Of Public Natural Resource Wealth, Paul Rose
Paul Rose
As improved but often more environmentally-obtrusive technologies such as hydraulic fracturing facilitate the extraction of billions of dollars in natural resource wealth, more states are now faced with a welcome but exceedingly complex set of problems: Who should benefit from natural resources extracted from public lands? If the state retains much of this wealth in the form of tax receipts, how should these funds be spent? What do states owe to the communities from which these resources were extracted? What do states owe to future generations? While these are questions of first impression for a few, fortunate states, a number …
A Complete Property Right Amendment, John H. Ryskamp
A Complete Property Right Amendment, John H. Ryskamp
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The trend of the eminent domain reform and "Kelo plus" initiatives is toward a comprehensive Constitutional property right incorporating the elements of level of review, nature of government action, and extent of compensation. This article contains a draft amendment which reflects these concerns.
Breaking The Bank: Revisiting Central Bank Of Denver After Enron And Sarbanes-Oxley, Celia Taylor
Breaking The Bank: Revisiting Central Bank Of Denver After Enron And Sarbanes-Oxley, Celia Taylor
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