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Comparison of State and Local Government Revenue
in the United States
-5yr -1yr   Fiscal Year 2013  +1yr +5yr
Amounts in percent GDP

Gross Public Debt

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Debt
as percent GDP

Revenue as percent of GSP
 Total Revenue
 Income Taxes
 Social Insurance Taxes
 Ad-valorem Taxes
 Fees and Charges
 Business and Other
 Debt
 GSP Growth
State State
Debt
Local
Debt
State and
Local
Debt
 Alabama4.85%11.09%15.94% more
 Alaska13.75%8.15%21.90% more
 Arizona4.80%13.21%18.01% more
 Arkansas3.33%7.60%10.93% more
 California7.05%12.49%19.54% more
 Colorado5.92%13.13%19.05% more
 Connecticut13.17%4.61%17.78% more
 Delaware9.48%3.96%13.44% more
 District of Columbia0.00%9.59%9.59% more
 Florida5.59%14.91%20.50% more
 Georgia2.90%8.55%11.45% more
 Hawaii10.49%6.89%17.38% more
 Idaho6.48%5.02%11.50% more
 Illinois9.65%12.03%21.69% more
 Indiana6.81%8.68%15.49% more
 Iowa6.83%7.99%14.82% more
 Kansas5.19%16.78%21.97% more
 Kentucky8.11%16.42%24.53% more
 Louisiana8.15%8.27%16.43% more
 Maine10.46%5.30%15.76% more
 Maryland7.92%6.15%14.07% more
 Massachusetts18.91%6.45%25.36% more
 Michigan7.43%11.47%18.90% more
 Minnesota4.42%13.18%17.61% more
 Mississippi6.76%7.75%14.51% more
 Missouri8.01%9.21%17.22% more
 Montana11.21%3.94%15.15% more
 Nebraska2.57%11.04%13.61% more
 Nevada2.99%15.07%18.07% more
 New Hampshire13.52%4.82%18.34% more
 New Jersey12.49%8.10%20.59% more
 New Mexico9.21%8.58%17.78% more
 New York11.32%16.10%27.42% more
 North Carolina4.23%6.89%11.13% more
 North Dakota4.54%4.87%9.41% more
 Ohio6.08%9.50%15.58% more
 Oklahoma6.55%5.76%12.32% more
 Oregon7.29%10.98%18.28% more
 Pennsylvania7.41%14.26%21.66% more
 Rhode Island17.10%4.87%21.97% more
 South Carolina8.53%11.91%20.44% more
 South Dakota8.96%5.39%14.35% more
 Tennessee1.97%13.91%15.88% more
 Texas2.33%16.94%19.27% more
 All states combined7.11%11.39%18.50% more
 Utah6.05%11.41%17.46% more
 Vermont12.77%4.66%17.43% more
 Virginia5.95%9.09%15.03% more
 Washington7.24%12.13%19.37% more
 West Virginia11.03%5.97%16.99% more
 Wisconsin9.07%9.36%18.43% more
 Wyoming3.17%2.45%5.61% more
Notes: guesstimated1 estimated

1. "Guesstimated" by projecting the latest change in reported number forward to future years. GSP deviation from national GDP growth cut by 40% per year.

Data Sources:
See State GDP Information
Federal: Fed. Budget: Hist. Tables 2.1, 2.4, 2.5, 7.1
State and Local: State and Local Gov. Finances
Guesstimated” by projecting the latest change in reported revenue forward to future years

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Data Sources for 2013:

GDP: Fed. Budget: Hist. Table 10.1
Federal: Fed. Budget: Hist. Tables 2.1, 2.4, 2.5, 7.1
State and Local: State and Local Gov. Finances
Guesstimated” by projecting the latest change in reported revenue forward to future years

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State and Local Spending for Individual States from 1957 to 1991

On June 15, 2013 usgovernmentspending.com loaded state and local spending and revenue for individual states going back to 1957.

Up to now, we have provided state and local finances from the present back to 1992 using data provided by the Census Bureau here.  But the Census Bureau also has data on individual states going back to 1957 here in file Govt_Finances.zip.

There is a break in data series at 1991-92.  The Census Bureau prior to 1992 has fewer line items than the post-1992 data.  There is also a break at 1976-77.  The Census Bureau prior to 1977 has fewer line items than the post-1977 data.    Typically, the data in reports for earlier years is reported in an aggregate item that sums up the detailed items in the more recent data reports.

These breaks in data have produced "notches" in some of the data series, and we have done some "juggle-ology" to produce smoother data series, as detailed below.

One problem in the pre-1992 data is that Medicaid is not broken out of welfare.  Up to now, for pre 1992 years we have estimated Medicaid expenses for all states combined based upon the assumption that the intergovernmental transfers to health care all apply to Medicaid and can be subtracted from the gross welfare expenditures to produce welfare net of Medicaid.  For each state, therefore, we have broken down pre-1992 gross welfare expenditures  between net welfare and Medicaid based upon the overall ratio for all states between net welfare (gross welfare less health care intergovernmental transfer) and Medicaid (health care intergovernmental transfer).

Another problem that the pre-1992 data seems to include judicial and legal system expenditures under "General Control" in the "General Government" category.  Data since 1992 has separate data series for judicial and legal system expenditures and we showed it under "Protection" in the default data view.  We have therefore created a new "default" view with judicial and legal system expenditures included under "General Government."  The old default view -- now labeled "old" -- has the judicial and legal system expenditures included under "Protection."  Typically, any links you have saved previous to June 15, 2013 will categorize data under the old default view.  New links will use the new default view, unless you select the old default view.

For 1958-60 combined state-and-local data only is reported in the Census Bureau data. So we have estimated state data and local data by interpolation from 1957 and 1961.

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