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An Alternative Tale Of Two Tax Jurisdictions: A Reply, Robert L. Sexton, Gary Galles
An Alternative Tale Of Two Tax Jurisdictions: A Reply, Robert L. Sexton, Gary Galles
Robert L Sexton
ABSTRACT. Cebula (1999) suggests that the success of California's Proposition 13 and Massachusetts' Proposition 2-1/2 is better judged by their effects on the growth rates of real per capita revenues and expenditures rather than on the te^ek of those variables, which Galles and Sexton (1998) used to evaluate those measures. However, the data shows that virtually all of their effects, relative to the United States as a whole, arose during their implementation periods, and that there is no clear evidence of the "longer term success in terms of reducing the growth rate of real per capita revenues and expenditures" that …