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Very few high earners earn the majority of their income through means that the marginal tax rate would even affect. You could raise it to 99% and it would impact guys like Gates very little. You'd be taking it from people who earn it mostly through salary type compensation packages, doctors, surgeons, attorneys. I'm not trying to play those folks as martyrs, but those aren't the people that these discussions really are about. So if your goal is folks at the income level of a Gates and you're talking marginal rates as a method, to paraphrase and clean up an old saying, you're peeing upstream.Dickies said:Why do you expect that tons of people would pay at that rate today when very few did back then? The article said top income earners paid around 10% higher taxes then versus today. I would be okay with that, and I suspect it would take a massive top end marginal tax rate to get there.
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