>It's not even like it's not been tried before - TFA posits that marginal tax was 90% in the 60s yet I'm pretty sure that life is better now than it was then.

>It's not even like it's not been tried before - TFA posits that marginal tax was 90% in the 60s yet I'm pretty sure that life is better now than it was then. To nitpick here a bit, it's funny that you call out his argument as being blatantly incorrect while making a blatantly incorrect one yourself. There are many things that have contributed to the reasons why overall QoL has gone up and trying to correlate lower taxes to better QoL is absurd, considering we've seen the improvements globally in places with both high and low tax rates.