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Old 07-13-2010, 09:09 AM  
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Originally Posted by Coup View Post
the interesting part of that graph is the period between the 30's to the 70's. you know. the time period we came out of the depression and became an economic super power. seems hurt the argument that deep tax cuts for the rich are good for the economy shit right-wingers keep spewing.

the only thing deep tax cuts for the rich seems to accomplish is to enlarge the wealth divide.
The only problem with your analysis is that simply looking at tax rates is not going to give you the right answer (ie; write-offs unavailable today were every where when income taxes were much higher).

The tax code is more complicated than that.
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