>>Be the top rate 94% or 28%, revenue/gdp comes in around 18%.
It's estimated at 14.4% this year. If we assume GDP is 15T then an additional 3.6% tax looks like a half trillion or so. That would go nicely towards the 45T Medicare hole.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1