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Visualizing Economics: Historical Tax Rates of Top 0.01%

And still they want lower rates!
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The top 1% (aka the self-styled “job creators”) say lowering tax rates on the very wealthy will stimulate the economy, create jobs, benefit everyone, achieve world peace, cure cancer, and finally explain where Jimmy Hoffa got to. But, as this graph illustrates (link below), tax rates for the tippy-top earners …