Acknowledgments

John Wallis thanks Henry Wulf and Donna Hirsch of the Census of Governments for invaluable help with the original census data. Phillip Schuler and Luning Yu were tireless in their efforts to prepare tables and documentation. Monty Hindman asked the right questions, found the inconsistencies, and patiently reminded me of deadlines missed. Finally, the National Science Foundation has financed my research on state and local government public finance, which underlies this entire chapter.