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by m0llusk
1455 days ago
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My dad made around a quarter million a year as an airline pilot and was unable to make use of tax deductions to avoid the 75% taxes. When Reagan did his thing my dad's tax rate went down to around 33% or something like that. My dad loved to go around town bragging about his money and his income. When Reagan's tax cut gave him what amounted to roughly doubling his income he made sure everyone within a radius of five miles or so knew about that. His take home pay went from roughly $65k to $165k and he couldn't stop talking about that. And your point is some population level statistics make that into something that doesn't count. Maybe you need to take a walk and talk to some people to get a clearer idea of how people think about all this? |
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Maybe instead of your claiming "wealthy people saw their rate drop dramatically" you should more accurately claim "I heard one wealthy person claim their rate dropped, but I didn't actually inspect their taxes... The majority didn't see this mythical drop. Most saw the opposite." That is the claim you've provided evidence for.
If your world view is formed from choosing one off examples over well-sourced, broad based evidence, it's not surprising you believe things that are simply untrue.
> Maybe you need to take a walk.....
Maybe you need to learn what terms mean and how evidence works to before making wild claims. Anecdotes are irrelvant compared to population when making population claims for good reason.