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To: neolib who wrote (68093)	4/23/2018 4:39:16 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 363207

The decline at the start would be do to things in the past, not the changes currently enacted. The decline in revenue at the start probably has a lot to do with recently enacted policies. Tax cuts can cause revenue to decline rather quickly except to the extent that their focused on specific areas were things won't happen that way (say a capital gains tax cut which causes people to realize capital gains temporarily increasing revenue) In general both the movements upwards and downwards in both spending and revenue are affected by current, recently, further back, and very old policy changes. Try drawing lines over either the whole dataset (including future projections) or over just the future projections (preferably both) and the lines would look rather different than what you drew. But even your cherry picked points show spending growing slightly faster than revenue, and more to the point they show that spending goes up outside the normal range, while revenue doesn't decline out of it, pointing to extra spending as being the problem.