oops. double oops. Not enough coffee. The web-site was a bit hard to
read, so I merged tables 3 and 4 in my mind. That's 1.6% of GDP,
compared to 3.6% in 1962. It's $189.4 billion compared to $20.5
billion in 1962.

The source is: http://www.cbo.gov/showdoc.cfm?index=1821&sequence=0#table3
(the Congressional Budget Office.)

On 9/2/05, Max Sawicky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> $1.6 billion?  Do you mean just for L.A.?
> 
> 
> 
> how could they cut coporate taxes any more than they have already?
> 
> (in 1962, corporate tax revenues were 20.5 billion. In 2004, there
> were 1.6 billion. That's nominal, non-inflation-corrected, dollars.
> It's not corrected for the large rise in the size of the tax base,
> either.)
> --
> Jim Devine
> "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let
> people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
> 


-- 
Jim Devine
"Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let
people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.

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