This article reexamines the measures of tax progressivity in the fifty states derived Abstract by Greene and Balkan (1987) and finds them to be substantially in error. Recalcu
lated progressivity indexes provided in this article exhibit far less deviation than the
indexes published by Greene and Balkan.
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