>>>The top marginal rate in 2013 (and, I think, still) is 39.6% on income over $450K for a couple or $225K for an individual. So high earners today are paying a considerably smaller portion of their income in taxes, and yet still complaining that taxes are too high.
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>Gotta say it: 39.6% still is quite high for personal income tax by world standards.
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Call Ripley. We agree on something :)