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The Texas Revenue Primer: The Measure of Our Means

  

Authors:
Dick Lavine /(512) 320-0222 x 101
Eva DeLuna Castro /(512) 320-0222 x 103
Scott McCown /(512) 320-0222 x 109
Patrick Bresette

March 1, 2003

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Texans need to put more money into state government. Our state has a budget shortfall close to $15.6 billion, meaning it needs that much money on top of the comptroller's revenue estimate to do for the growing number of Texans next biennium what it did this biennium. This primer discusses ways to raise this money.