IRLE and the Labor Center Co-Sponsor Economic Inequality Teach In

Source: Piketty, Thomas, Saez, Emmanuel Saez, and Stantcheva, Stefanie. Optimal Taxation of Top Labor Incomes: A Tale of Three Elasticities, NBER Working Paper No. 17616, November 2011

Teach-In presenter Emmanuel Saez (Economics) analyzed top tax rate data in 18 OECD countries since 1975. As the above table indicates, cuts in top tax rates have not led to higher economic growth, suggesting that restoring higher rates would not hurt economic growth.

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