Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-1-2006
Abstract
This analysis by UCLA’s Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy, estimates the impact of allowing same-sex couples to marry on New Mexico’s state budget. Using the best data available, allowing same-sex couples to marry will result in a net gain of approximately $1.5 million to $2 million each year for the State. This net impact will be the result of savings in expenditures on state means-tested public benefit programs and an increase in sales and lodging tax revenue from weddings and wedding-related tourism.
Publisher
Williams Institute/UCLA School of Law
Publication Title
The Institute for Gay and Lesbian Strategic Studies
Recommended Citation
Steven K. Homer, M.V. Lee Badgett, R. Bradley Sears, Patrice Curtis & Elizabeth Kukura,
The Impact on New Mexico’s Budget of Allowing Same-Sex Couples to Marry,
The Institute for Gay and Lesbian Strategic Studies
(2006).
Available at:
https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/law_facultyscholarship/468
