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by conception 76 days ago
Of course because that’s how marginal tax rates work.

As to how much actual money was taxed at 91%, we don’t really have records for that but certainly the top 0.01% paid significantly more in taxes as a rate than they do today.

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There were a lot more tax shelters at that time. You only paid those top rates if you had poor or no financial advice.