bobover3 (imported) wrote: Sun May 08, 2011 1:59 am Dave, you're right that there's only a conjectural relation between the top marginal tax rate and median income. Tax rates are only one of many factors affecting the economy, and the top tax rate would directly affect only those in that bracket.

bobover3 (imported) wrote: Sun May 08, 2011 1:59 am All that's proven is that a higher top tax rate is not associated with greater prosperity, as some here have argued. My own speculation is that lower tax rates are more likely during periods friendly to business and wealth creation, so that prosperity is not caused by the tax rates alone, but by the combination of many policies.

Losethem (imported) wrote: Sun May 08, 2011 10:54 am Gee Bob, you just glossed over that whole comparison I made using the data you provided in the links given about how the opposite of what you're claiming here is true using the same data. At the same time you're still clinging to that data to support your original position.

Amazing.

Isn't lying with statistics fun?

--LT