False.
It was 28 percent when he (finally) left.
More importantly, tax revenue didn't double in 8 years. Not even close. In fact the only way you can approach that number is to use current dollars, which no serious analyst ever does when comparing dollars across a range of years. You use real dollars--dollars that are adjusted for inflation. That puts everything on the same standard.
However, even using current dollars the increase in revenue only jumps from 599.3 billion to 909.3 billion, or 52 percent. Much of that is inflation. If you use real dollars, the increase is from 1.0774 trillion to 1.2356 trillion, or 15 percent.
15 percent is not exactly double, although "double" is what you often read on dishonest right-wing disinformation web sites or what they say on Fox "news."
Let's compare that performance with the Clinton years. As you'll recall, in 1993 the Democrats pushed through a fairly stiff tax hike on the richest 2 percent of the population. According to you, Andy, this would have a devastating effect on the economy. That's what all the right-wingers predicted too. Not a single Republican voted for it. They all foresaw economic doom and ruination.
From 1993 to 2000, tax revenues jumped from 1.1545 to 2.0255 trillion or 75 percent in current dollars; and from 1.3232 to 2.0255 trillion or 53 percent in real dollars.
source of figures here
So what you claimed, really, is false.
So is what you believe.
You have a choice. Adjust your beliefs to fit the facts, or adjust the facts to fit your beliefs. If you choose the latter, the right wing has a story all laid out for you--it's all because of the tech bubble.
The choice is yours.
