I don't know, to me it looked like taxes were higher during war years. The graph shows taxes dropping between WW1 and WW2, remaining elevated throughout the Col

I don't know, to me it looked like taxes were higher during war years. The graph shows taxes dropping between WW1 and WW2, remaining elevated throughout the Cold War and increasing when the US participated in armed conflict, and then going down the last two decades. At least that's the general trend I saw in the graph.