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Tax and Expenditure Limits

How States Restrict Revenues and Spending

Kim S. Rueben, Megan Randall
November 28, 2017
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Abstract

Tax and expenditure limits (TELs) are self-imposed restrictions that state governments create to restrict the amount they can tax or spend. This fact sheet describes how TELs vary across states and discusses evidence on whether TELs achieve their objective of restraining government growth.

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State and Local Issues State and local budgets
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