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Cost of Government Day (COGD)
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Cost of Government Day® Report
Calendar Year 2007

Fifteenth Edition

Research and Analysis by

Elizabeth Karasmeighan

Table of Contents

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Overview of Results _______________ 1

Cost of Government Day 2007 _______________ 1

Cost of Government Day: Components ____________3

The Government Spending Burden _______________ 4

Special Focus: Spending and the Federal Budget Deficit ____________ 6

State and Local Spending ________________ 7

State Tax Increases ________________ 7

State-by-State Breakdown ________________ 9

Special Focus: Interstate Migration ____________ 10

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