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Re:Economic Reality by crdoconnor on Tuesday July 05, 2016 @07:38PM (#12040275)
Well, the sheer deluge of articles proclaiming an impending exodus every time the idea of raising taxes is mooted and the lack of any evidence for these so called exoduses has made me... skeptical.

Historically the highest US income tax rate was 95%. Guess what?

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Re:Economic Reality by twblalock on Tuesday July 05, 2016 @08:10PM (#12040407)
It only takes a few one-percenters moving away from a state to drain tens, or even hundreds, of millions of dollars from the state's tax revenue. I think this was mentioned in the article: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/business/one-top-taxpayer-...
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