Article: OHIO SHORTCHANGED ON FEDERAL SPENDING STUDY SHOWS.

Dec. 19, 2000

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15-Residents of Ohio paid $3.9 billion more to the federal government in taxes than their state received in federal spending last year, according to a study sponsored by Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D-N.Y., and conducted by Harvard University.

The study, which analyzes the balance between federal tax payments and federal spending in all 50 states, shows Ohio is one of 19 so-called "donor states" that pay more in taxes than they recoup in spending. Most states, 31 of them, received more in federal spending last year than they paid in taxes.

Each of Ohio's 11.3 million residents paid an average of $5,171 in taxes ...

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