Since Robbie offers no proof, I searched his "exact" topic title in google.. came up with this...
https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article...ut-run-surplus
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The $361,038,000,000 in total taxes the Treasury collected this January was $11,747,870,000 more than the $349,290,130,000 that the Treasury collected in January of last year (in December 2017 dollars, adjusted using the Bureau of Labor Statistics inflation calculator).
The Treasury not only collected record taxes in the month of January itself, but has now collected record tax revenues for the first four months of a fiscal year (October through January).
So far in fiscal 2018, the federal government has collected a record $1,130,550,000,000 in total taxes
Ie we were already collecting record taxes since October of last year, so Jan was just a continued trend. Nothing to do with tax cuts, BECAUSE THE TAX CUTS WERNT EVEN IN EFFECT....
Also...
Over the last twenty fiscal years, going back to 1999, the federal government has run surpluses in the month of January 13 times and deficits 7 times. Six of the Januaries in which the federal government ran deficits overlapped President Barack Obama’s time in office—including January 2009, the month Obama was inaugurated, and the Januaries in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014 and 2016.
Thanks Obama.....ie its pretty common for Jan to be a surplus month and in recent times we have only been in deficits in Jan when the economy was crashed...
Keep reaching Robbie..