[Seeker]

Individual income tax payments totaled $306.5 billion, a 9.4 percent drop from last year. Corporate tax payments plunged by 47.4 percent to $34.2 billion.


Spending for the first four months of the 2003 budget year totaled $712.9 billion, representing a 7.8 percent increase from the corresponding period in 2002.
The Article (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=536&e=2&cid=536&u=/ap/20030224/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/treasury_budget)

[Jim March]

Ballpark plausible. The high-tech stock bubble burst, waddya expect?