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A comment on Bernie Sanders’s Tax Plan Would Test an Economic Hypothesis. Parent comment

Re:Bernie Sanders’s Tax Plan Would Test an Economic Hypothesis by knodi123 on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @11:17AM (#11066277)
In america, in 1948, the marginal tax rate on income over 200,000 was 91%.

The 50% tax rate was on income over $16k. Which is $157k in 2015 dollars.

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Re:Bernie Sanders’s Tax Plan Would Test an Economic Hypothesis by harryh on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @11:20AM (#11066311)
Corporations responded by not paying high salaries but instead giving people lavish expense accounts and company cars that were not taxed.
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Re:Bernie Sanders’s Tax Plan Would Test an Economic Hypothesis by eplanit on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @11:28AM (#11066401)
Yes. And, the tax code was filled with so-called loopholes. Anybody with a brain and a competent accountant were able to cleverly avoid a lot. Many of these were eliminated in the Reagan-era "tax reform" (and more since).
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