Oh, D.C. government. You were so optimistic. You thought, “hey, maybe we’ll give people a break and, in turn, we’ll be rewarded for extending the social olive branch to our constituents with tax monies.” But you were wrong. So, so wrong. (So far, at least.) The District’s Tax Amnesty Program — which has been popping up during television ad breaks more and more recently — just hit the halfway point, and the results are not promising. The government only recouped $2 million of the nearly $170 million it is owed in backtaxes during August. OTR had projected that it would get $20 million in owed revenues from the program, which runs until the end of September.. Sure, a majority of scofflaws won’t probably take advantage of the amnesty until the end of the month, but if that $20 million goal isn’t met, the difference will come out of the 2011 budget — in which the city is already running a deficit.