You know you have to make some adjustments for depressions and major upheavals. But you take a look, The government always gets about 18 and a half, you know between sort of 17 to 20 and 19% of the economy in tax receipts. 18 and a half seems to be sort of the mean. So we've had times with very high marginal tax rates. Yeah. And we're getting 18 and a half percent of the economy in tax rates. (1:16:35–1:16:47)
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Asserts that U.S. tax receipts consistently represent about 18.5% of the economy.
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