Amos: Your claim that "Bush then reversed Clinton's trend" is false. If you study the chart that you found so easy to shit all over a but harder you will notice a decline in revenues starting in 2000, before Bush took office. It began with the bursting of the internet bubble at the same time that gasoline prices started to rise. Remember when Yahoo and Amazon stock went from the hundreds to the 20's? But the need for government spending did not decrease.

It continued until 2003 when Bush signed the jobs and growth act which reversed the downward trend that Clinton left.