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WHERE DOES MY MONEY GO?

The chart below illustrates how your tax dollars are spent through the state budget. Note that Education, Local Aid and Health Care costs account for nearly 60% of every dollar spent in the budget annually.


The chart below, produced by the Mass. Budget and Policy Center, is a complete "Sources and Uses" statement for the Fiscal Year 2009 General Appropriation Act. To view an accompanying report, entitled "MassBudget Brief: Transparency and Balance, FY 2009 General Appropriation Act," click here.

  
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