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| Revenue Units: By default, government revenue is displayed in billions of dollars. But using a dropdown control in the table heading you can select $ billion (2000), and percent of GDP. Chart Title: You can create a title for your chart. Use the text field to enter a title and click the button to the right of the text field. US or State: By default, the chart shows overall United States government revenue. But you can select revenue for individual states by selecting the state dropdown control in the table heading. State, Local: By default, you can chart state revenue or local revenue by clicking a radio button in the selection table. But you can chart state-and-local combined by selecting state n local in the state/local dropdown control in the table heading. |
| Line/Bar: By default, the data series are displayed as line charts. But you can also select a bar chart. Data Stack: By default, the data series are stacked when displayed on the chart. But you can change the setting to un stack the data series. Chart Size: By default, the chart is displayed at medium size. But you can use the dropdown control to change the size. Color: By default charts are displayed with color data lines and fill. You can change this to grayscale if you want. US Budget Year: By default, the chart displays budgeted and estimated federal revenue in the current US Budget submitted to the Congress by the president. But you can look at previous budgeted numbers using this dropdown control. |
Data Range Start Year: You can select any start year you want using the dropdown control in the table heading. At the top and bottom of the dropdown only years ending in 0 are shown. Select a start year to get close, then select the start year you want. End Year: You can select any end year you want using the dropdown control in the table heading. At the top and bottom of the dropdown only years ending in 0 are shown. Select an end year to get close, then select the end year you want. |
| Category | Sub-category | Fed | Gov. Xfer | State | Local | Total | |
| Data Series: Select a revenue series you want to chart from a dropdown on the left. If you select on the bottom dropdown you will add a data series (up to a maximum of five). The right-hand dropdown allows you to replace a data series with a more narrowly focused series. Click the X link to remove a data series from the chart. | X | ||||||
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Below is a formatted version of the data displayed in the chart.
| Year | GDP-US $ billion | Total Revenue-fed pct GDP | Total Revenue-statelocal pct GDP |
| 1902 | 24.1 | 2.71 | 0.00 |
| 1903 | 25.9 | 2.56 | 0.00 |
| 1904 | 25.7 | 2.51 | 0.00 |
| 1905 | 28.8 | 2.28 | 0.00 |
| 1906 | 31 | 2.35 | 0.00 |
| 1907 | 33.9 | 2.44 | 0.00 |
| 1908 | 30.1 | 2.52 | 0.00 |
| 1909 | 32.2 | 2.39 | 0.00 |
| 1910 | 33.4 | 2.62 | 0.00 |
| 1911 | 34.3 | 2.69 | 0.00 |
| 1912 | 37.4 | 2.46 | 0.00 |
| 1913 | 39.1 | 2.46 | 0.00 |
| 1914 | 36.5 | 2.55 | 0.00 |
| 1915 | 38.7 | 2.16 | 0.00 |
| 1916 | 49.6 | 1.79 | 0.00 |
| 1917 | 59.7 | 2.05 | 0.00 |
| 1918 | 75.8 | 5.34 | 0.00 |
| 1919 | 78.3 | 7.27 | 0.00 |
| 1920 | 88.4 | 8.35 | 0.00 |
| 1921 | 73.6 | 8.40 | 0.00 |
| 1922 | 73.4 | 5.81 | 0.00 |
| 1923 | 85.4 | 5.01 | 0.00 |
| 1924 | 86.9 | 4.95 | 0.00 |
| 1925 | 90.6 | 4.47 | 0.00 |
| 1926 | 96.9 | 4.36 | 0.00 |
| 1927 | 95.5 | 4.68 | 0.00 |
| 1928 | 97.4 | 4.44 | 0.00 |
| 1929 | 103.6 | 4.14 | 0.00 |
| 1930 | 91.2 | 5.30 | 0.00 |
| 1931 | 76.5 | 5.20 | 0.00 |
| 1932 | 58.7 | 4.49 | 0.00 |
| 1933 | 56.4 | 5.78 | 0.00 |
| 1934 | 66 | 5.89 | 0.00 |
| 1935 | 73.3 | 6.18 | 0.00 |
| 1936 | 83.8 | 6.18 | 0.00 |
| 1937 | 91.9 | 6.75 | 0.00 |
| 1938 | 86.1 | 8.39 | 0.00 |
| 1939 | 92.2 | 7.71 | 0.00 |
| 1940 | 101.4 | 6.90 | 0.00 |
| 1941 | 126.7 | 7.45 | 0.00 |
| 1942 | 161.9 | 9.92 | 0.00 |
| 1943 | 198.6 | 13.73 | 0.00 |
| 1944 | 219.8 | 23.38 | 0.00 |
| 1945 | 223 | 23.85 | 0.00 |
| 1946 | 222.2 | 20.88 | 0.00 |
| 1947 | 244.1 | 18.29 | 0.00 |
| 1948 | 269.1 | 17.56 | 0.00 |
| 1949 | 267.2 | 16.53 | 0.00 |
| 1950 | 293.7 | 14.82 | 0.00 |
| 1951 | 339.3 | 16.72 | 0.00 |
| 1952 | 358.3 | 20.04 | 0.00 |
| 1953 | 379.4 | 19.57 | 0.00 |
| 1954 | 380.4 | 19.94 | 0.00 |
| 1955 | 414.8 | 17.34 | 0.00 |
| 1956 | 437.5 | 18.58 | 0.00 |
| 1957 | 461.1 | 18.88 | 0.00 |
| 1958 | 467.2 | 18.41 | 0.00 |
| 1959 | 506.6 | 16.87 | 0.00 |
| 1960 | 526.4 | 18.96 | 0.00 |
| 1961 | 544.7 | 18.60 | 0.00 |
| 1962 | 585.6 | 17.02 | 0.00 |
| 1963 | 617.8 | 17.25 | 0.00 |
| 1964 | 663.6 | 16.97 | 0.00 |
| 1965 | 719.1 | 16.24 | 0.00 |
| 1966 | 787.8 | 16.61 | 0.00 |
| 1967 | 832.6 | 17.87 | 0.00 |
| 1968 | 910 | 16.81 | 0.00 |
| 1969 | 984.4 | 18.98 | 0.00 |
| 1970 | 1038.5 | 18.57 | 0.00 |
| 1971 | 1126.8 | 16.61 | 0.00 |
| 1972 | 1237.9 | 16.75 | 0.00 |
| 1973 | 1382.3 | 16.70 | 0.00 |
| 1974 | 1499.5 | 17.55 | 0.00 |
| 1975 | 1637.7 | 17.04 | 0.00 |
| 1976 | 1825.3 | 16.33 | 0.00 |
| 1977 | 2030.1 | 17.51 | 0.00 |
| 1978 | 2294.7 | 17.41 | 0.00 |
| 1979 | 2563.3 | 18.07 | 0.00 |
| 1980 | 2789.5 | 18.54 | 0.00 |
| 1981 | 3128.4 | 19.16 | 0.00 |
| 1982 | 3255 | 18.98 | 0.00 |
| 1983 | 3534.6 | 16.99 | 0.00 |
| 1984 | 3933.2 | 16.95 | 0.00 |
| 1985 | 4217.5 | 17.41 | 0.00 |
| 1986 | 4462.8 | 17.24 | 0.00 |
| 1987 | 4736.4 | 18.04 | 0.00 |
| 1988 | 5103.8 | 17.82 | 0.00 |
| 1989 | 5484.4 | 18.07 | 0.00 |
| 1990 | 5800.5 | 17.79 | 0.00 |
| 1991 | 5995.9 | 17.60 | 0.00 |
| 1992 | 6342.3 | 17.21 | 0.00 |
| 1993 | 6667.4 | 17.32 | 0.00 |
| 1994 | 7072.2 | 17.80 | 0.00 |
| 1995 | 7397.7 | 18.28 | 0.00 |
| 1996 | 7838.5 | 18.54 | 0.00 |
| 1997 | 8332.4 | 18.96 | 0.00 |
| 1998 | 8679.66 | 19.84 | 0.00 |
| 1999 | 9353.5 | 19.54 | 0.00 |
| 2000 | 9749.1 | 20.78 | 0.00 |
| 2001 | 10286.2 | 19.36 | 0.00 |
| 2002 | 10642.3 | 17.42 | 0.00 |
| 2003 | 11142.1 | 16.00 | 0.00 |
| 2004 | 11607 | 16.20 | 0.00 |
| 2005 | 12339 | 17.46 | 0.00 |
| 2006 | 13398.9 | 17.97 | 0.00 |
| 2007 | 14077.6 | 18.24 | 0.00 |
| 2008 | 14441.4 | 17.46 | 0.00 |
| 2009 | 15215 | 17.75 | 0.00 |
| 2010 | 15987 | 18.34 | 0.00 |
| 2011 | 16782 | 18.33 | 0.00 |
| 2012 | 17603 | 18.58 | 0.00 |
| 2013 | 18462 | 18.57 | 0.00 |
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We have met with families in which for weeks together, not an article of sustenance but potatoes had been used; yet for every child the hard-earned sum was provided to send them to school.
E. G. West, Education and the State
In 1911... at least nine million of the 12 million covered by national insurance were already members of voluntary sick pay schemes. A similar proportion were also eligible for medical care.
Green, Reinventing Civil Society
Three dynamic and converging systems functioning as one: a democratic polity, an economy based on markets
and incentives, and a moral-cultural system which is plural and, in the largest sense, liberal.
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The Union publishes an exact return of the amount of its taxes; I can get copies of the budgets of the four and twenty component states; but who can tell me what the citizens spend in the administration of county and township?
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