Total revenues collected by Feds in '00 = $2,025 billionIf this were accurate the total prices of goods and services in 2000 would have been ~$6,075 billion. It wasn't. It was much higher. The 33.6% is flat out wrong. You can't even describe the method they used to determine that number. It's completely arbitrary!
(33.6% of consumer price [per Robbin's 1999 federal tax contribution to prices] )
You can't even describe the method they used to determine that number. It's completely arbitrary!
Your repeating yourself, answer already provided to you here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1196095/posts?page=248#248
As far as a ballpark verification of the value goto 1998, GDP/NIPA, that was undoubtedly the essential source from which the percentage would have been extracted. Think real hard on it.