New Yorkers have historically paid out more in federal taxes than they receive in federal expenditures. That reversed during the pandemic, but it’s expected to return to normal.
unty, New York, the district’s Congressman, Nick LaLota, R-N.Y., said he was pleased that the federal government had acknowledged Stony Brook’s work, but expressed disappointment with the amount of money New Yorkers generally receive back from their federal taxes.
Experts told PolitiFact that LaLota is on target about the general historical pattern for New York, but they added that 2020 and 2021 reversed that pattern because of unprecedented coronavirus relief payments that dramatically increased the flows of federal funds to households, businesses, and state and local governments.
A New York state comptroller’s office analysis found a slightly different number for 2018 — 91 cents back in federal spending for every dollar spent. By contrast, the report said, the national average was $1.24, meaning that the average state received more money back than it paid into the federal treasury.These were typical numbers going back years, said Edmund J. McMahon Jr., founder and senior fellow of the Empire Center for Public Policy, a right-of-center think tank based in Albany.
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