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Flypaper Unstuck: Comment on Dixon, Picton and Rimmer
Author(s) -
Pincus Jonathan
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
australian economic review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 1467-8462
pISSN - 0004-9018
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8462.00248
Subject(s) - commonwealth , state (computer science) , economics , revenue , public economics , political science , law , accounting , computer science , algorithm
Commonwealth general revenue grants to the States are substitutes for State taxes, and should be spent by the States. If preferences vary, then differences in State spending are not evidence of flypaper effects.