re: ? for you economists, if the Feds are taking in a record amount of revenues,

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Is it important to note that the Feds are taking in a record amount of revenues at a time when the economy is shrinking?

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Sure, if (1) it's way out of line with the typical proportion of government revenues as a piece of the size of the total economy and (2) the shrinking is sustained.

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I'd like to think that the Feds would take in record amounts of revenues when the economy is humming, and not when it is receding.

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True. So this may be a sign that when things really do finally get humming again, revenues will be gigantic.

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Is it possible that the tax burden on working Americans is too high and it is hurting the economy?

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Of course it is