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Rate US tax rates in 1959 (91% top rate)
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Date: January 27th, 2022 9:42 AM Author: canary comical voyeur Is this what MAGA shits mean when they idealize the 1950's?
https://www.tax-brackets.org/federaltaxtable/1959 |
Date: January 27th, 2022 9:44 AM Author: self-absorbed dragon heaven Very few people paid that rate because there were far more ways to take deductions and avoid actually declaring enough income to be in that bracket. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5017702&forum_id=2#43855391) |
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Date: January 27th, 2022 9:47 AM Author: green bearded boistinker property ……champ (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5017702&forum_id=2#43855396) |
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Date: January 27th, 2022 9:50 AM Author: canary comical voyeur whatever, boomer (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5017702&forum_id=2#43855404) |
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Date: January 27th, 2022 10:10 AM Author: Awkward genital piercing Better to create an incentive to create more jobs or pay more because you can only keep $90 of every extra $1,000 you earn than the shit show we have with crap like carried interest in my humble opinion. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5017702&forum_id=2#43855534) |
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Date: January 27th, 2022 10:12 AM Author: racy public bath why wouldn't high earner mos just work less? why would they work more to altruistically benefit randos under threat of the govt confiscating their cash if they don't? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5017702&forum_id=2#43855545) |
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Date: January 27th, 2022 12:37 PM Author: Awkward genital piercing $400,000 in 1959 would be about $4,000,000 today. That’s a lot of income. If you have income in excess of $4m, I’d actually venture to say that you can’t just work “less.” You’re probably getting that income by either not working or by working in a way that’s not particularly scalable. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5017702&forum_id=2#43856653) |
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Date: January 27th, 2022 1:27 PM Author: racy public bath why work at all if i've already got plenty of money and govt is gonna take almost everything i make from now on?
if it's a business i'd just let it crash and burn, let them loot that lol |
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Date: January 27th, 2022 5:43 PM Author: Aromatic mustard antidepressant drug Lmao do you really think somebody like Elon Musk is going to stop making cars or rockets because his taxes went up? Put down the Atlas Shrugged, brother. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5017702&forum_id=2#43858376) |
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Date: January 27th, 2022 6:04 PM Author: racy public bath do you think 100% top rate would disincentivize him from working but 91% top rate wouldn't? or do you think he'd keep working even if 100% of the wealth he earned were confiscated? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5017702&forum_id=2#43858506) |
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Date: January 27th, 2022 10:11 AM Author: racy public bath (guy who actually knows what he's talking about, unlike other posters ITT) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5017702&forum_id=2#43855542) |
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Date: January 27th, 2022 10:31 AM Author: Flushed aphrodisiac home *Ghost of Joe Lewis appears and punches you in the face (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5017702&forum_id=2#43855621) |
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Date: January 27th, 2022 10:32 AM Author: Aqua High-end Plaza Jew TT with the low IQ take on tax rates ftw (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5017702&forum_id=2#43855627) |
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Date: January 27th, 2022 10:34 AM Author: Shivering Masturbator that's terrible. How would Zuckerberg afford 15 vacation homes with such rates? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5017702&forum_id=2#43855632) |
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Date: January 27th, 2022 1:40 PM Author: Flushed aphrodisiac home *screams the blue-haired activist as the IRS buttfucks the UMC (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5017702&forum_id=2#43857025) |
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Date: January 27th, 2022 10:35 AM Author: Jet-lagged mother whorehouse The median income in 1955 was $3400, that person probably payed an effective rate in the mid teens after deductions.
Also I’ll trade the tax regime for the demographics. |
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Date: January 27th, 2022 2:02 PM Author: Stirring amethyst theatre CR that sounds like heaven (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5017702&forum_id=2#43857161) |
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Date: January 27th, 2022 5:43 PM Author: Aromatic mustard antidepressant drug (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5017702&forum_id=2#43858383) |
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Date: January 27th, 2022 12:45 PM Author: sticky forum Such a stupid low iq argument. Just look at rates and ignore deductions, at risk and loss rules! It’s apples to apples! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5017702&forum_id=2#43856699) |
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Date: January 27th, 2022 1:45 PM Author: canary comical voyeur da deductions he lisped!! without naming any of these mysterious deductions (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5017702&forum_id=2#43857051) |
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Date: January 27th, 2022 1:46 PM Author: Kink-friendly Indirect Expression Useless Brakes im sorry we dont have 1950s era Title 26 memorized (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5017702&forum_id=2#43857055) |
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Date: January 27th, 2022 1:50 PM Author: self-absorbed dragon heaven He literally referenced the passive loss rules and at risk rules. Code sections 465 and 469.
Tax reform from the 1980s on broadened the base and lowered the rates.
We used to have a narrow base and high rates. Now we have a broad base and lower rates. This is better for almost anyone other than those who used/abused tax shelters in the 1980s. |
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Date: January 27th, 2022 2:37 PM Author: excitant amber marketing idea pozpig Correction: as Mitt pointed out we have a narrow base, at least for income tax, and Dems want to make it even narrower (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5017702&forum_id=2#43857369) |
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Date: January 27th, 2022 5:45 PM Author: Aromatic mustard antidepressant drug Do tell, why should any middle class American support a broad tax base and not a narrow one? The fuck kind of reasoning is this? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5017702&forum_id=2#43858395) |
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Date: January 29th, 2022 9:31 PM Author: self-absorbed dragon heaven Generally speaking, it’s better for most people to pay a modest rate than for the headline rate to be high but for those who are supposed to be paying it be highly motivated to pay 50 cents on the dollar to accountants and tax lawyers to avoid it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5017702&forum_id=2#43871622) |
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Date: January 27th, 2022 2:10 PM Author: Bisexual red tattoo dilemma I don't really care about the details. The end result was clear. There just weren't many super rich people in 1950s America. There was only one billionaire back then supporting the American Jewish Committee. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5017702&forum_id=2#43857196) |
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Date: January 27th, 2022 5:46 PM Author: histrionic selfie (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5017702&forum_id=2#43858398) |
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Date: January 29th, 2022 10:39 PM Author: arousing hospital The 90% marginal tax rate was an absolute disaster for both the country and the people working. A classic example of how retarded it was is the case of world heavyweight champion boxer Joe Louis. He donated money to the government to help fund the WWII war effort. The government took the money, then told him he had to pay taxes on it because the donations themselves weren’t taxes. So he had to earn $100 for every $10 he had to pay in taxes.
Despite being one of the most successful, responsible, and dominant heavyweight champions ever, the government ran him into bankruptcy and he died a pauper.
https://www.mackinac.org/V1997-22
Ultimately it was easy to shield money from the 90% marginal rate, but the high earners right when the tax got imposed were fucked. Virtually no one paid the 90% rate when it was dropped. |
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Date: January 30th, 2022 8:09 AM Author: Awkward genital piercing It sounds to me like government policies kept this dude working and producing for his whole life instead of becoming a layabout slob. I’d call that a win. 99% tax rates for all Americans earning more than $200,000 in AGI! |
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Date: January 30th, 2022 8:18 AM Author: Beady-eyed pistol feces Fuck it. Just bring back slavery. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5017702&forum_id=2#43873016) |
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Date: January 30th, 2022 8:17 AM Author: Beady-eyed pistol feces I’m sure the FDR/Truman postwar tax schemes are exactly what they have in mind to pay for CRT and do-nothing grift of today (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5017702&forum_id=2#43873014) |
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Date: January 30th, 2022 8:18 AM Author: Godawful step-uncle's house Finally, it is very likely that the existence of a 91 percent bracket led to significant tax avoidance and lower reported income. There are many studies that show that, as marginal tax rates rise, income reported by taxpayers goes down. As a result, the existence of the 91 percent bracket did not necessarily lead to significantly higher revenue collections from the top 1 percent.
https://taxfoundation.org/taxes-on-the-rich-1950s-not-high/ |