The Impact of Coal on Kentucky's State Budget, 2009

This report, published by the Mountain Association for Community Economic Development, compares the amount of state revenues directly and indirectly generated by the coal industry with the level of state spending on the coal industry, through tax breaks, subsidies, and other direct expenses. It concludes that in 2006 Kentucky taxpayers spent about $115 million more to host the coal industry than we received in tax revenues from the industry.