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Hmm, I didn’t ask about effective tax rate at all.

• Terr_ 2y ago
  > I didn't ask about Well what did you (intend to) ask for then? The ball's in your court to clarify, because the phrase "taxes went up" could mean total collections in real dollars, it might mean total collection in real dollars per capita, or top theoretical marginal income rate, or average effective rate (which you just denied), or just income taxes and not other taxes, or income taxes and payroll taxes, ad nauseam. There's no point finding historical examples only for you to declare that it doesn't count because it doesn't match your unstated hidden idea.
• dragonwriter 2y ago
  You asked about “taxes went up”. There were (as is frequently the case) both tax increases and decreases in both years. How would you assess whether, overall, “taxes went up” or not other than by the economy-wide effective tax rate?