File this one in the "misery loves company" department.
Florida legislators have been fretting over the state's $3.75 billion deficit, but they are not alone. Other states will be under the same pressure to balance their budgets, if thedata released Wednesday by the U.S. Census Bureau is anything to go by.
State governments collected $704.6 billion in revenue in the 2010 fiscal year, about $14 billion less than in 2009. Florida's share was $31.5 billion, the vast majority of which was collected from sales and gross receipts taxes.
