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I'm pretty sure that federal revenues were a higher percentage of national income during the Second World War than they are today.

Curious, though, they were also quite high in the Clinton years (and at other times in the post war era).

Anyone know what's up with that?

[traviskicks]

thanks for that graph!

[Clinging Bitterly]

Interesting graph. Notice it dips every four years like clockwork. And the largest peaks are (mostly) at presidential election years where the party in office is upset - like that really really big one at 2000.

And our current trend is slightly above the post-war average, but again we are in a war.

Still there's that other thing I mentioned a couple of posts up. We have about a year to do something about it.