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As far as Rappahannock County is concerned, the government’s grants-in-aid programs are a somewhat costly proposition. Local residents are contributing more money toward the programs than people in most parts of the country but are getting back relatively less in the form of benefits, an analysis shows. For every dollar the local area received in the past year from Washington for schools, health services, hospitals, urban renewal, roads and other community needs, the cost to its residents was $1.01. That is how much they paid, via income taxes and excise taxes that were allocated to*the aid programs. The figures are based upon a recent state-by-state study, covering the past fiscal year, made by the Tax Foundation, a non-profit, national research organization that monitors government spending and taxation. Its findings reveal that communities in 20 states failed to break even in the year. They paid more in taxes than they collected in aid. Their outlay was $14.9
96.7%