Natural amenities and Neo-Hobbesian local public finance
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A revenue maximizing local government must obey a migration constraint when levying taxes. Using this insight, I develop simple theory of taxation that suggests natural amenities are key factor influencing tax rates. Natural confer rents to residents which governments and interest groups compete extract. Revenue rates increasing in the level amenities, moving costs, decreasing households’ reservation utility. data on for US counties, find in-fact amenities. Finally, suggest an alternative interpretation “tax revolts” late 1970s. Rather than attempt constrain Leviathan, property reform (such as California’s Proposition 13) restrictions housing supply outcome competition over amenity owners successfully capture monopoly position at expense other social including renters government.
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عنوان ژورنال: Constitutional Political Economy
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['1043-4062', '1572-9966']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10602-023-09398-w