Proposition 13 and its offspring: For good or for evil?

National Tax Journal

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 129-138

  McGuire, Therese J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

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