tax and cactus

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I live in the Seattle area, but my family is all on the East Coast. When I was home for Christmas, my ten year old niece waxed eloquent about the things her school was in the midst of teaching her about “the Western Region of the United States”. Or, rather, that’s what she did once she’d struggled to recall whether Washington State is in the “west

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[rowyn]

Yeah, there's a bunch of things I'm curious about, re: 90% tax bracket in particular, like: did that affect paycheck size? Or the difference between gross income vs agi? How did the class breakdown of tax receipts look (eg, IIRC about 80% of total income tax revenue is from the top 20% of earners now -- was that different 70 years ago?)

Yet I am not nearly curious enough to try to figure it out. :/