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- Title
Distributional Effects of State and Local Finance-A Skeptical View.
- Authors
Albin, Peter S.
- Abstract
It is generally accepted that the incidence of federal taxation is progressive as compared to state and local taxation. These conditions are the rationale for several policy adaptations designed to bring benefits to persons at the lower end of the income distribution. The apparent progressivity of state and local finances is an artifact of the failure of transfer programs to raise lower-bracket incomes. If at the federal level there is a profound desire to effect maximum redistribution of benefits to the poorest income groups, it may be best to develop programs specifically geared to these interests or to engage in cost-sharing or incentive financing directed toward specific poverty-oriented state and local programs.
- Subjects
LOCAL finance; LOCAL taxation; INCOME; PUBLIC spending; POVERTY; PUBLIC finance; FINANCE; INCOME redistribution; COST shifting
- Publication
Land Economics, 1972, Vol 48, Issue 1, p86
- ISSN
0023-7639
- Publication type
Report
- DOI
10.2307/3145647