New Sources for Research
Chapter Ten: Revenues, Expenditures, and Fiscal Policy

*Blakeslee, Nate. "Brother, Can You Spare $800 Million?" Texas Observer (8 June 2001): 3, 15. Concerning property tax abatement to lure industry to Texas and what it will cost the state treasury.

Blakeslee, Nate. "Double Dipped: Did the 'World's Toughest Grandma' Throw a Fight?" Texas Observer (22 June 2001): 4-5, 29. About Comptroller Carole Keeton Rylander and a tobacco tax.

CSSB 1 - The House Appropriations Committee's Proposed Fiscal 2002-2003 Budget. House Research Organization State Finance Report No. 77-2. Austin: Texas House of Representatives, April 6, 2001.

Coburn, Karen Ann. "Tax Holidays: A Slippery Slope." Governing (November 2000): 70, 72. Examples from Texas and six other states.

Dense, Jeff. "Whither State Lotteries? Fiscal Trends and Future Challenges." Comparative State Politics 20 (April 1999): 3-17.

Greenblatt, Alan. "Lucky Strike." Governing (October 2000): 42, 44-45. How the states are dividing tobacco settlement money.