TL;DR: Debunking the Myth of the 90% Top Marginal Tax Rate Under Eisenhower The claim that the 90% top marginal tax rate during Eisenhower’s era […]
Category: Taxes
Do Tax Cuts Increase Revenues? No, Tax cuts do not Increase Revenue
Business Cycles: GDP and Revenues Correlating Tax Rates with Revenue Reagan TaxCuts: The Facts Bush Tax Cuts: The Facts Historical Tax Rates The Laffer Curve In […]
Did Jerry Brown call California Tax Payers Free Loaders? Not likely.
Claim: Jerry Brown called California tax payers freeloaders Fact: It’s not 100% clear who the “freeloader” comment was directed to. Given the topical order of the […]
Half of Americans Pay no Taxes – A Myth that refuses to go away
The facts regarding the percentage of Americans are as follows: Roughly half of all Americans pay no federal income taxes specifically About 86% of Americans […]
Obama’s Tax Increase and Short Term Memory
The ‘Fiscal Cliff’ deal included allowing the payroll tax holiday to expire. This tax holiday actually began under Obama so it’s merely going back to […]
Obama wants to raise taxes on small business owners – Fact or Myth?
I somehow found myself watching Fox News earlier (for the first time in awhile). Greta Van Susteren was interviewing Paul Ryan. Great (who Bill O’Reilly […]