On the Fact that (According to the Tax Foundation and the Council of Economic Advisers Report of 2001) Taxes (Federal, Local, State) as a Percentage of Net National Product Rose from 8% In 1918 to 35% In 2000

How else do you think that we were able to fund that litany of bullshit foreign wars (from WW1 to the first Iraq War)? With pixie-dust? Come on.