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March 13, 2012
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Taxes
Over the past 40 years, federal revenues have ranged from nearly 21 percent of GDP, in fiscal year 2000, to less than 16 percent, in fiscal years 2009 through 2012; they have averaged about 18 percent of GDP over the four decades. In addition to projecting the future course of federal revenues, CBO analyzes the budgetary and economic effects of various features of the federal tax system and the effects of potential changes to current tax rules.
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Projections
- budget projections
Additional Data
- spending by budget function
Supplemental Material
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Baseline Projections for Mandatory Spending Programs
- USDA mandatory farm programs
- student loan and pell grant program
- children's health insurance program
- health insurance exchanges
- medicaid
- medicare
- social security disability insurance
- Old-Age and Survivors Insurance
- Old-Age, Survivors, and DI Trust Funds
- Child Nutrition Programs
- Child Support Collections
- Child Support Enforcement and Family Support
- Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund
- Foster Care and Adoption Assistance
- Military Retirement
- Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
- Railroad Retirement
- Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
- Supplemental Security Income
- Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
- unemployment compensation
- Changes in Payments to Physicians
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