• GrundlButter@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      10 months ago

      The top tax rate bracket in the US was over 90% from 1944-1963. A median single income worker could own a home, have healthcare, food, and afford kids. GDP was doing just fine, I assume that’s what you mean by revenue.

      The top tax rate now is 37%, and a median single income earner can sometimes afford a 1 bedroom without relying on a 2nd set of income. Can’t afford buying a home. Food scarcity is getting worse. Healthcare is fucked beyond belief. And kids are just flat out of the question.

      As a country we aren’t getting our fair share of the value of our labor. Ideally the benevolent job creators would create good paying jobs, and make the middle class stop struggling. When this doesn’t happen, we need to give them an incentive. I’m not saying we should increase taxes, unless there is no other option.

      What ideas besides taxes do you have to make the billionaire class give us a minimum standard of living that isn’t dystopian?

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        The price of rent is caused by wildly popular limits on construction of new housing.

        “The top tax rate bracket in the US was over 90% from 1944-1963.”

        Discussing this without mentioning the ridiculous loop holes is either ignorance or bad faith. And I don’t care for either.

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          The loop holes exist today too. But sure, let’s ignore that.

          What do you have in mind to eliminate the disparity in wealth that plagues us, reducing the American standard of living to subsistence and poverty? I’m sure ya have one, right?

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      10 months ago

      Tax rates that reduce revenue are far, far greater than any current tax rate in the US, not that rates should be set to optimize revenue. People that try to use the Laffer curve as justification for reducing taxes in the US lack both practical and theoretical understanding of taxes.

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          So when you asked “What’s going to happen if tax rate increases keep decreasing revenue?” you were referring to something that doesn’t involve revenue? And that doesn’t have to do with income tax? In a conversation about income tax? That’s even worse.