Vermont ranked 41^st out of 50 states, when it comes to taxpayers' return on investment (ROI). What Vermont taxpayers pay to Montpelier doesn’t get a great return relative to what taxpayers from most other states get.

WalletHub commissioned Dr. John Kovari and William Kusterman to conduct the study "2021’s States with the Best & Worst Taxpayer ROI.” They ranked our nemesis New Hampshire, #1 out of all 50 states in taxpayers’ ROI, a state that doesn’t pay any income taxes.

Kovari and Kusterman generated a ‘Overall Government Services’ for each state, equally weighting 5 categories: Infrastructure & Pollution, Education, Health, Safety, and Economy. This Services Score was then set against ‘Total Taxes Paid per Capita’ to find ‘Taxpayer ROI.’

Vermont actually did pretty well in Overall Government Services, ranking 2^nd in Education, 6^th in Safety, 6^th again in Infrastructure and pollution, 7^th in Health, but only 36^th in Economy. Overall, not bad, if you ignore the price tag.

But paying the 3^rd most taxes per capita in the country really sunk our score. Only Hawaii and North Dakota tax their citizens more.