And foreign sales accounted for roughly 70 percent of total receipts, both for the industry at large and for some of the biggest American studio productions like "Avatar".
Those companies with receipts over $50 million account for 88.8 percent of total receipts.
It is simultaneously the largest direct taxpayer, responsible for 7% of total receipts, and through its contributions to schools, hospitals and other charities, drawn from profits, accounts for perhaps another 0.7% of spending on public services.
For instance, the total receipts and expenditures of the post office or other commercial activities of the public sector usually do not appear; only the deficit or surplus does.
While the Bush campaign raised almost $16 million in April, Senator John Kerry's campaign said on Thursday that it had raised more than $30 million in that time, bringing its total receipts for the election to more than $115 million.
That bill would simply prohibit outlays exceeding total receipts for that fiscal year, other than interest payments, unless Congress says otherwise in a three-fifths vote of each chamber as in times of war.
In the House, the two measures that have gained the most traction are Mr. Goodlatte's, which prohibit outlays exceeding total receipts for that fiscal year, other than interest payments, unless Congress says otherwise in a three-fifths vote of each chamber.
These two sectors have been money-spinners for the taxman, accounting for half the increase in total receipts between 2002-03 and 2007-08; Treasurysury now thinks that revenues from finance and housing will decline by 1.5% of GDP between 2007-08 and 2009-10.
But the roughly two dozen donors who each gave between $100,000 and $500,000 accounted for just 16percentt of the group's total receipts last year.
