State and local government receipts and expenditures

This file represents Table 10. State and local government receipts and expenditures, 1986, 1996, 2006, and projected 2016, in "The U.S. Economy to 2016: slower growth as boomers begin to retire," published in the November 2007 Monthly Labor Review.

Table 10. State and local government receipts and expenditures, 1986, 1996, 2006, and projected 2016
Category Billions of current
2000 dollars
Percent Distribution
 
Average annual
rate of change
1986 1996 2006 2016 1986 1996 2006 2016 1986-96 1996-2006 2006-16

Receipts

$561.7 $1,043.3 $1,797.7 $3,112.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 6.4 5.6 5.6

Tax receipts

389.5 709.6 1,232.3 2,186.3 69.4 68.0 68.6 70.3 6.2 5.7 5.9

Personal taxes

87.2 168.7 301.2 553.3 15.5 16.2 16.8 17.8 6.8 6.0 6.3

Corporate income taxes

22.7 33.0 62.4 71.7 4.0 3.2 3.5 2.3 3.8 6.6 1.4

Taxes on production and imports

279.7 507.9 868.8 1,561.3 49.8 48.7 48.3 50.2 6.1 5.5 6.0

Sales taxes and other

163.6 295.6 500.9 813.2 29.1 28.3 27.9 26.1 6.1 5.4 5.0

Property taxes

116.2 212.4 367.8 748.1 20.7 20.4 20.5 24.0 6.2 5.6 7.4

Contributions for social insurance

6.0 12.5 26.0 41.9 1.1 1.2 1.4 1.3 7.7 7.6 4.9

Income receipts on assets

58.4 73.3 87.1 135.5 10.4 7.0 4.8 4.4 2.3 1.7 4.5

Interest receipts

52.0 67.3 73.8 113.4 9.3 6.4 4.1 3.6 2.6 0.9 4.4

Dividends

0.2 1.4 2.6 4.2 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 24.6 6.8 4.9

Rents and royalties

6.2 4.6 10.7 18.0 1.1 0.4 0.6 0.6 -2.9 8.7 5.3

Transfer receipts

105.0 234.1 462.9 748.3 18.7 22.4 25.8 24.0 8.3 7.1 4.9

Federal grants-in-aid

87.6 191.2 358.6 588.5 15.6 18.3 19.9 18.9 8.1 6.5 5.1

From business (net)

6.7 15.2 40.6 65.3 1.2 1.5 2.3 2.1 8.5 10.3 4.9

From persons

10.6 27.8 63.7 94.5 1.9 2.7 3.5 3.0 10.1 8.7 4.0

Surplus of government enterprises

2.8 13.9 -10.7 0.0 0.5 1.3 -0.6 0.0 17.4 (1) (1)
 

Expenditures

540.7 1,017.5 1,773.0 3,027.3 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 6.5 5.7 5.5

Consumption expenditures

417.9 724.8 1,276.5 2,149.1 77.3 71.2 72.0 71.0 5.7 5.8 5.3

Government social benefit payments to persons

84.3 224.2 400.8 714.1 15.6 22.0 22.6 23.6 10.3 6.0 5.9

Medicaid

46.9 163.6 312.1 578.9 8.7 16.1 17.6 19.1 13.3 6.7 6.4

Other

37.5 60.6 88.7 135.2 6.9 6.0 5.0 4.5 4.9 3.9 4.3

Interest payments

38.2 68.1 95.4 163.5 7.1 6.7 5.4 5.4 5.9 3.4 5.5

Subsidies

0.3 0.3 0.4 0.6 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.8 2.1 4.8

Less wage accruals less disbursements

0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 (1) (1) (1)
 

Net state & local government saving

21.0 25.8 24.6 84.7 2.1 -0.5 13.2

Footnotes:
(1) Data not computable.

Note: Dash indicates data not available.
SOURCES: Historical data, Bureau of Economic Analysis; projected data, Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Last Modified Date: December 27, 2007