Given the stance of many on this forum, I thought this might be of interest. Came as a bit of a surprise, although given recent events maybe not as big a surprise as it should have been.
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Not only did lower taxes increase overall tax revenue, it increased tax collected from that specific group too.
Basically, dropping taxes on the wealthy led to higher levels of investment, which in turn led to higher tax revenues overall, which in turn led to the wealthy paying a larger share of the countries overall taxes.
Not quite sure how you can justify higher taxes for the group that not only pays the most tax in the USA, but when compared to other countries around the world, is the most highly taxed demographic on the planet already.
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The Wall Street Journal's Stephen Moore has just come out with a new book titled Who's the Fairest of Them All?: The Truth about Opportunity, Taxes, and Wealth in America and he reveals some interesting information about how much the top ten percent of income earners in the United States pay in federal income taxes as opposed to any other industrialized nation in the world.
According to Moore, these earners pay almost half (45 percent) of the country's total taxes. This conclusion flies in the face of the liberal concept that top earners in the U.S. are not paying their "fair share" in taxes. Moore explains:
"The United States is actually more dependent on rich people to pay taxes than even many of the more socialized economies of Europe. According to the Tax Foundation, the United States gets 45 percent of its total taxes from the top 10 percent of tax filers, whereas the international average in industrialized nations is 32 percent. America’s rich carry a larger share of the tax burden than do the rich in Belgium (25 percent), Germany (31 percent), France (28 percent), and even Sweden (27 percent)."
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1920s: The top tax rate fell from 73 percent to 25 percent, yet the rich (in those days, those earning $50,000 and up) went from paying 44.2 percent of the tax burden in 1921 to paying more than 78 percent in 1928.
1960s: President John F. Kennedy slashed the top tax rate from 91 percent to 70 percent. In the ensuing three years, those making more than $50,000 annually saw their tax payments rise by 57 percent, and their share of the tax burden climbed from 11.6 percent to 15.1 percent.
1980s: The Reagan years saw the top rate fall from 70 percent in 1980 to 28 percent in 1988. What happened to the rich? The top 1 percent went from shouldering 17.6 percent of the income tax burden in 1981 to paying 27.5 percent of the total in 1988. The top 10 percent saw their share of the burden climb from 48 percent in 1981 to over 57 percent in 1988.
Not only did lower taxes increase overall tax revenue, it increased tax collected from that specific group too.
Basically, dropping taxes on the wealthy led to higher levels of investment, which in turn led to higher tax revenues overall, which in turn led to the wealthy paying a larger share of the countries overall taxes.
Not quite sure how you can justify higher taxes for the group that not only pays the most tax in the USA, but when compared to other countries around the world, is the most highly taxed demographic on the planet already.