Taxes collected by Government (1977 - 2017) - A picture is worth a thousand words.

From the "Obama's Second Term" file.

This is a chart I prepared using data from the "historical tables" provided by the White House Office of Management and Budget. The information is raw data; I don't know if it is corrected for inflation. The hard part for me was learning how to (a) create the chart and (b) publish it.

The top line is individual taxes; the bottom is corporate taxes.