Jay Livingston posts this delight—-a graph that, instead of starting at 0, starts at the oddly-chosen value of 34%:
What I’d really like to see is the Greg Mankiw version where the top tax rate fluctuates between 80 and 93 percent.
P.S. In the interest of bipartisanship, I searched the web for a similar graph from a partisan Democratic source. It wasn’t hard. I just googled white house graph and looked around. This one seems to fit the bill although I can’t say for sure since it’s too damn hard to actually read the words:
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They forgot to trim the top of the Y-Axis to 40.
That 4.6% represents the proverbial Slippery Slope between Freedom
As We Know It and the Totalitarian Gulag that existed during the Eisenhower Administration.
Fox is clearly one of the frontrunners of statistical innovation. Did you see/discuss last year’s floating y-axis?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/post/fox-newss-unemployment-chart-better-graphics/2011/12/12/gIQAUVgNqO_blog.html
Well, the words on the second graph *are* difficult to read but I would have thought that the claimed $2 trillion was the integral over the red area; so it starts at zero in 2009 and looks to be around $600 billion in 2019. I don’t think this is like Fox graph that starts at 34% at all.