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Something else to consider is that these are tax rates on your AGI. When discussing taxes, particularly when discussing taxes from Reagans second term onwards, it's important to remember that the government doesn't just automatically get X money from Y people. A lot of the argument comes from the assumption that everyone in the top 2% is simply losing that tax rate in income while everyone below that is simply getting it all back (and sometimes then some). Even someone making 250,000 a year can easily have a lot of deductions and credits meaning they pay much less than the actual rate in taxes.
And that's just the start of considering whether modern tax rates can "work" or not, it's frankly pointless to compare bush and clinton as we're talking a pretty much negligible difference in comparison to the historical rates of 50% and above from 1932 until basically 1980.
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