I showed my sources for the facts. The discussion and conclusion are my own. If you interpret the numbers as meaning something different, I’d like to hear it.
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If you know of a better way to analyze solely the effect of adjusting a marginal tax rate, go for it.
You know what, go for it. I genuinely want to see people like AOC debate people like Ted Cruz or Mike Lee in a public forum. It makes both better when they are forced to defend their ideas against people who disagree, instead of interviewing with people who generally agree with themselves.
My problem there is that I only did the research in response to WashingtonPark. Its really on the kind of crappy kinja comment interface. I would have edited that analysis into my top-level comment immediately, but we have that stupid 15-minute limit on edits.
I’d need to find a much more detailed source than the one I used. But I agree, that would be very interesting to investigate.
This really is an excellent point. Which is why, if you had scrolled down, you would have seen me addressing precisely that.
I’ll defend that by saying I’ve seen AOC covered on the news quite frequently, and her responses to the media and others have gotten me to the point where I can firmly consider her an idiot.
My sincerest thanks to you for offering the first serious response to my reply. It is a breath of fresh air compared to all the insults I’m getting around here. All I did today was look up the raw numbers and run an analysis solely on those numbers.
Most of my replies are meant for the person I’m replying to.
Ooh, incapable of reading anything that challenges your world view.
Oh, that’s the post you replied to? A post that is critical of the method by which Trump got elected and voter turnout?
Maybe you should read my actual researched response detailing how adjusting the top marginal tax rate does nearly nothing to actual US revenue. All you need to do is scroll up. I dare you.
I’d love to see the stats after this year’s tax stats are in and add them to my spreadsheet, but look at my post detailing the history of tax revenue in the US. The link I have given shows 2019 projected as gathering more income than last year.
Ooh, nice one. Now go to sleep knowing you told that guy on the Internet what is right.
Someone’s out of touch. 2016:
I did the research to write a decent response to you, the least you could do is read it.
Hey look everybody, an idiot incapable of scrolling up.
Taxes should not be used in any of those first three reasons. It is not (or at least ought not be) the job of the government to redistribute wealth or pick which industry succeeds.
Sometimes you need to actually scroll through the thread instead of just reading the first post. I have a very detailed reply detailing that raising the top marginal tax rate will have no net effect on tax revenue.