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If You Want to “Soak the Rich,” Keep Tax Rates Low

FletchforFreedom Wrote: Sep 27, 2012 5:24 PM
On the basis of the evidence, you are not interested in evidence or facts or easily obtained research and will stick your fingers in your ears and hum rather than actually LOOK at the evidence. All you care about are your own beliefs and you're not interested in the facts that call those beliefs into question or completely refute them ... which is the case in the overwhelming majority of instances.

I’ve pulled evidence from IRS publications to show that rich people paid a lot more to Uncle Sam after Reagan reduced the top tax rate from 70 percent to 28 percent.

 

But the Gipper wasn’t the only one to unleash the Laffer Curve. The United Kingdom saw similar dramatic results when Margaret Thatcher lowered the top tax rate from 83 percent to 40 percent. Allister Heath explains.

During the 1970s, when the tax...

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