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@[email protected] to Political [email protected] • 2 years ago

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  • Neuromancer
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    4•2 years ago

    He can’t. It’s all fantasy land.

    The myth of the 90% tax rate is just that. A myth.

    You have to compare deductions from the time vs the current tax code. It’s harder to deduct now than in the past

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2022/05/09/fact-check-viral-post-exaggerates-tax-rates-under-eisenhower/9588111002/

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      21•2 years ago

      That article says the corporate tax was 30% to 52%, AND that the individual income tax got up to 90%. What you call myth is very much true.

      And corporate tax is much much lower now than it was then and we have rampant income consolidation to the top earners.

      Since January 1, 2018, the nominal federal corporate tax rate in the United States of America is a flat 21% following the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_tax_in_the_United_States

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        Yeah we have some of the high corporate taxes in the world. So If your thesis was correct, you’d see this everywhere but you don’t.

        Companies are sitting all billions on dollars offshore because of our high taxes.

        No the article clearly points out nobody was paying that tax rate. Everyone paid a much lower tax rate. Having it set to 90%, doesn’t matter if nobody pays it.

        https://www.npr.org/2017/08/07/541797699/fact-check-does-the-u-s-have-the-highest-corporate-tax-rate-in-the-world

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