The Tax Foundation

May 8, 2005

Boston Globe -- 'Northeast's return on federal taxes continues to shrink'

"For every dollar Massachusetts residents send to Washington, according to figures compiled by the Tax Foundation in Washington, the Commonwealth will get 78 cents back in federal largesse. In 2003, that difference amounted to an $11.7 billion shortfall, a sum equivalent to about half of the entire state budget."

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