State and local government receipts and expenditures

This table also can be found in the article, "The U.S. economy to 2020: recovery in uncertain times," published in the January 2012 Monthly Labor Review.

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Table 4.9 State and local government receipts and expenditures, 1990, 2000, 2010, and projected 2020

Category

Billions of current dollars

Percent distribution

Annual rate of change

1990

2000

2010

2020

1990

2000

2010

2020

1990-2000

2000-10

2010-20

Receipts

$738.0

$1,322.6

$2,064.7

$3,383.6

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

6.0

4.6

5.1

Tax receipts

519.1

893.2

1,307.9

2,328.4

70.3

67.5

63.3

68.8

5.6

3.9

5.9

Personal taxes

122.6

236.7

297.5

505.7

16.6

17.9

14.4

14.9

6.8

2.3

5.4

Corporate income taxes

22.5

35.2

57.8

153.0

3.0

2.7

2.8

4.5

4.6

5.1

10.2

Taxes on production and imports

374.1

621.3

952.5

1,669.8

50.7

47.0

46.1

49.3

5.2

4.4

5.8

Sales taxes and other

212.5

366.6

521.9

928.2

28.8

27.7

25.3

27.4

5.6

3.6

5.9

Property taxes

161.5

254.7

430.6

741.7

21.9

19.3

20.9

21.9

4.7

5.4

5.6

Contributions for social insurance

10.0

10.8

20.8

34.3

1.4

0.8

1.0

1.0

0.7

6.8

5.1

Income receipts on assets

68.5

94.3

91.0

192.0

9.3

7.1

4.4

5.7

3.2

-0.4

7.8

Interest receipts

64.1

86.7

75.0

159.3

8.7

6.6

3.6

4.7

3.1

-1.4

7.8

Dividends

0.3

1.4

2.6

4.6

0.0

0.1

0.1

0.1

18.4

6.7

5.9

Rents and royalties

4.2

6.3

13.4

28.2

0.6

0.5

0.6

0.8

4.2

7.9

7.7

Transfer receipts

133.4

313.9

655.9

822.5

18.1

23.7

31.8

24.3

8.9

7.6

2.3

Federal grants-in-aid

111.4

247.3

531.5

614.4

15.1

18.7

25.7

18.2

8.3

8.0

1.5

From business (net)

7.1

28.6

50.3

88.2

1.0

2.2

2.4

2.6

15.0

5.8

5.8

From persons

14.9

38.0

74.1

119.8

2.0

2.9

3.6

3.5

9.8

6.9

4.9

Surplus of government enterprises

6.9

10.4

-10.8

6.4

0.9

0.8

-0.5

0.2

4.2

-

-

 

Expenditures

731.8

1,281.3

2,090.0

3,294.3

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

5.8

5.0

4.7

Consumption expenditures

547.0

930.6

1,443.5

2,256.8

74.7

72.6

69.1

68.5

5.5

4.5

4.6

Government social benefit payments to persons

127.7

271.5

534.6

850.9

17.4

21.2

25.6

25.8

7.8

7.0

4.8

Medicaid

78.2

205.0

421.1

690.9

10.7

16.0

20.1

21.0

10.1

7.5

5.1

Other

49.5

66.4

113.5

160.1

6.8

5.2

5.4

4.9

3.0

5.5

3.5

Interest payments

56.8

78.8

110.3

184.5

7.8

6.1

5.3

5.6

3.3

3.4

5.3

Subsidies

0.4

0.6

1.6

2.0

0.1

0.0

0.1

0.1

3.2

11.1

2.4

Less wage accruals less disbursements

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

-

-

-

 

Net state & local government saving

6.2

41.3

-25.3

89.4

-

-

-

-

20.9

-

-

Note: Dash indicates data not computable or not applicable.

Source: Historical data: Bureau of Economic Analysis; Projected data: Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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