Larry Kranich SUNY at Albany   Dept of Economics University at Albany Albany, NY 12222 USA   lkranich@albany.edu   http://www.albany.edu/econ/Faculty/LKranich.htm           JEL Areas: E6 : Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General H2 : Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue: General