Methodology

Awesome tax rate graph!

Aug 3 '12

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: