The Tax Incidence of Three Texas Lottery Games: Regressivity, Race, and Education

National Tax Journal

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 741-750

  Price, Donald I ^a   Novak, E Shawn ^b  

^a LAMAR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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