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States Should Consider Partial Wealth Tax Reforms, David Gamage, Darien Shanske May 2020

States Should Consider Partial Wealth Tax Reforms, David Gamage, Darien Shanske

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This article is a contribution to Project SAFE (State Action in Fiscal Emergencies). In other essays in this project, we explain steps the federal government should take to help state and local governments cope with their looming budget crises. The federal government is much better positioned to manage these crises than states and localities and, ideally, it would act sufficiently to prevent the need for state and local governments to cut spending or raise taxes. However, we fear that the federal government may fail to act sufficiently, leaving states and localities with the need to make painful spending cuts, raise …