New Hampshire's Tax-Base Limits: An Example of the Leviathan Model

Colin D Campbell

Public Choice, 1994, vol. 78, issue 2, 129-44

Abstract: This study views the lack of an income tax on wages and salaries and a general sales tax in New Hampshire as tax-base limits. I use the Leviathan model to analyze the differences between the fiscal system in New Hampshire and the fiscal systems in Vermont, Maine, and Massachusetts. Vermont, Maine, and Massachusetts do not have the tax-base limits that New Hampshire has. From 1957 to 1989, New Hampshire had lower state and local government tax and expenditure levels than the other three states, more rapid population growth, lower welfare expenditures but comparable levels of expenditures for several of the major public services, and a more competitive structure of state and local government. Copyright 1994 by Kluwer Academic Publishers

Date: 1994
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