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Employment Projections

State and local government receipts and expenditures

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Table 4.9 State and local government receipts and expenditures

Category

Billions of current dollars

Percent distribution

Annual rate of change

1998

2008

2018

2028

1998

2008

2018

2028

1998–08

2008–18

2018–28

Receipts

$1,149.6

$1,915.5

$2,588.4

$3,791.4

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

5.2

3.1

3.9

Tax receipts

794.9

1,334.1

1,764.9

2,576.4

69.1

69.6

68.2

68.0

5.3

2.8

3.9

Personal taxes

201.2

330.9

436.1

648.8

17.5

17.3

16.8

17.1

5.1

2.8

4.1

Corporate income taxes

34.9

47.4

60.2

101.7

3.0

2.5

2.3

2.7

3.1

2.4

5.4

Taxes on production and imports

558.8

955.8

1,268.6

1,825.8

48.6

49.9

49.0

48.2

5.5

2.9

3.7

Sales taxes and other

327.8

540.1

715.7

1,039.1

28.5

28.2

27.7

27.4

5.1

2.9

3.8

Property taxes

231.0

415.7

553.0

786.7

20.1

21.7

21.4

20.7

6.1

2.9

3.6

Contributions for social insurance

10.4

18.7

21.7

33.5

0.9

1.0

0.8

0.9

6.0

1.5

4.4

Income receipts on assets

81.4

107.0

87.2

136.7

7.1

5.6

3.4

3.6

2.8

-2.0

4.6

Interest receipts

75.2

91.4

69.8

110.7

6.5

4.8

2.7

2.9

2.0

-2.7

4.7

Dividends

1.6

3.4

6.0

9.0

0.1

0.2

0.2

0.2

7.8

5.8

4.1

Rents and royalties

4.6

12.2

11.4

17.0

0.4

0.6

0.4

0.4

10.2

-0.7

4.1

Transfer receipts

253.5

475.2

716.9

1,023.4

22.1

24.8

27.7

27.0

6.5

4.2

3.6

Federal grants-in-aid

200.8

371.2

578.1

812.2

17.5

19.4

22.3

21.4

6.3

4.5

3.5

From business (net)

21.6

42.5

54.5

82.7

1.9

2.2

2.1

2.2

7.0

2.5

4.3

From persons

31.1

61.5

84.3

128.5

2.7

3.2

3.3

3.4

7.1

3.2

4.3

Surplus of government enterprises

9.3

-19.3

-3.7

21.3

0.8

-1.0

-0.1

0.6

-15.2

 

Expenditures

1,179.7

2,136.4

2,830.3

4,059.7

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

6.1

2.9

3.7

Consumption expenditures

829.8

1,473.5

1,811.2

2,618.5

70.3

69.0

64.0

64.5

5.9

2.1

3.8

Government social benefit payments to persons

235.8

456.1

739.1

1,058.1

20.0

21.3

26.1

26.1

6.8

4.9

3.7

Medicaid

175.3

351.7

612.8

892.8

14.9

16.5

21.7

22.0

7.2

5.7

3.8

Other

60.5

104.4

126.3

165.3

5.1

4.9

4.5

4.1

5.6

1.9

2.7

Interest payments

113.7

203.8

279.4

382.5

9.6

9.5

9.9

9.4

6.0

3.2

3.2

Subsidies

0.4

3.0

0.6

0.7

0.0

0.1

0.0

0.0

22.3

-14.9

1.6

 

Net state & local government saving

-30.1

-220.9

-241.8

-268.3

22.1

0.9

1.0

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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Last Modified Date: September 4, 2019