Comments on: Historical Marginal Income Tax Rates

By: Aberant News » Blog Archive » Taxes and Truths

Aberant News » Blog Archive » Taxes and Truths — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 15:55:51 +0000

[...] Marginal Income Tax Rates, Visualizing Economics, Feb 4, 2010, Retrieved September 4, 2011 from: http://visualizingeconomics.com/2010/02/04/historical-marginal-income-tax-rates/ « Separation of Truth and [...]

By: Speaker of the (Dog) House — Atticus Uncensored

Speaker of the (Dog) House — Atticus Uncensored — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 00:58:26 +0000

[...] Taxes have not been lower since the 1960’s and the Bush tax cuts dropped them exponentially lower for those with the most dollars during his tenure. The growth in the number of billionaires has increased greatly over the past 4 years, while unemployment grows to record levels. [...]

By: socaljim

socaljim — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 14:49:00 +0000

considering tax rates are meaningless without corresponding loopholes and collected revenue per tax teir, your chart and accompanying chatter are meaningless as well.

By: NJEddie

NJEddie — Tue, 10 May 2011 01:10:00 +0000

I wonder how the tax revenue would compare to the top rates? I seem to recall from intermediate Econ that total revenue has risen as marginal rates were cut, every time (albeit with a lag of…? 18 months +/-?).

I wonder if the data underlying the charts takes into account how much income is “shielded” when rates jump, and how the rates effect discresionary income (example; selling investments to realize a gain)… and how often does the top rate apply only to the top 0.1% ? Juxtaposing these two charts seems to be an appeal to class-envy, and not an expression of any sound economic principle.

By: Tax Cut Compromise and Political Ratchets « Renaissance Roundtable

Tax Cut Compromise and Political Ratchets « Renaissance Roundtable — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 22:53:03 +0000

[...] and stimulus the tax cut will provide. We should not ignore that concern however. Just look at the top marginal tax rate through recent history and it becomes obvious that even raising taxes on the richest among us is [...]

By: Jimmie E. Rhodes

Jimmie E. Rhodes — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 01:31:37 +0000

Take a historical graph of the top marginal tax rate and superimpose on it a graph of the historical unemployment rate.

By: Haakon Dahl

Haakon Dahl — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:41:20 +0000

It would be interesting to see a graph of the unemployment rate applied to your Top 0.1 percent chart, or the “misery index”; the unemployment rate plus the inflation rate.