And your making the unfounded claim you did certainly illustrates nothing productive.
Excise taxes are a very small part of that tax bag, and on-budget entitlement taxes are about the same size as the corporate starting from about the mid-80's when entitlements began to bloom. Prior to that - which is a lot of the time period you refer to - the entitlement stuff was much smaller than corporate.
The trend remains as shown in the President's chart and also in the figures given in #190.
And your making the unfounded claim you did certainly illustrates nothing productive.Unfounded? Please. This info is very easy to find.
Federal Tax Receipts as a Percentage of GDP
source: Budget of the United States Government: Historical Tables Fiscal Year 2006
Year Receipts 1944 20.90% 1945 20.40% 1946 17.60% 1947 16.50% 1948 16.20% 1949 14.50% 1950 14.40% 1951 16.10% 1952 19.00% 1953 18.70% 1954 18.50% 1955 16.60% 1956 17.50% 1957 17.80% 1958 17.30% 1959 16.10% 1960 17.90% 1961 17.80% 1962 17.60% 1963 17.80% 1964 17.60% 1965 17.00% 1966 17.40% 1967 18.30% 1968 17.70% 1969 19.70% 1970 19.00% 1971 17.30% 1972 17.60% 1973 17.70% 1974 18.30% 1975 17.90% 1976 17.20% TQ 17.80% 1977 18.00% 1978 18.00% 1979 18.50% 1980 19.00% 1981 19.60% 1982 19.10% 1983 17.50% 1984 17.40% 1985 17.70% 1986 17.40% 1987 18.40% 1988 18.20% 1989 18.40% 1990 18.00% 1991 17.80% 1992 17.50% 1993 17.60% 1994 18.10% 1995 18.50% 1996 18.90% 1997 19.30% 1998 20.00% 1999 20.00% 2000 20.90% 2001 19.80% 2002 17.80% 2003 16.40% 2004 16.30%
You might notice in the chart above that, "as a percentage of GDP, tax receipts are at their lowest since 1959."