The economic impact of the program goes far beyond tax receipts.
And the decline comes at a time when individual tax receipts are running 6.7 percent ahead of 1998.
The candidates should tell us where, inside or outside that range, they would want federal tax receipts to be.
Total tax receipts declined nearly 5 percent from 2008 to 2009.
Tax receipts, instead of turning around, have only become worse.
This has led to higher tax receipts and helped the government pay down its national debt.
Tax receipts are running about $200 million below budget estimates.
The Government is in no way constrained by tax receipts.
The Forbes plan would reduce tax receipts to the government by $50 billion a year.
For the first five months of the current fiscal year, which started in October, federal tax receipts were up 9.3 percent.