Oh my... In truth you can very easily do that just look how the taxation graph in OP's link compares to the gov spending over that period. The only anomaly seem

Oh my... In truth you can very easily do that just look how the taxation graph in OP's link compares to the gov spending over that period. The only anomaly seem to be the late WWII years. https://taxfoundation.org/short-history-government-taxing-and-spending-united-states/ https://taxfoundation.org/short-history-government-taxing-an... Laws and mass compliance are really two different things. An example would be when new EU countries introduced those UUID's to each receipt while "lowering" taxes, resulting gov spending to gdp going actually up significantly.