# Why do some believe that lower taxes for high income people is good for the economy? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 28, 2021, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-some-believe-that-lower-taxes-for-high-income-people-is-good-for-the-economy/953423 "2021-10-28T23:41:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 65
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2021, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-some-believe-that-lower-taxes-for-high-income-people-is-good-for-the-economy/953423/65 "2021-10-30T22:24:46Z")
I link to this post a fair bit, but I hope you’ll find it useful and responsive to your basic question(s): > [@Do the rich pay their fair share?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-the-rich-pay-their-fair-share/921817/101): > > For anybody still interested in this topic, I found another really fascinating page and set of charts: I’m going to endeavor to get each of the charts to display here. Buckle up wink[[image] ](https://www.mercatus.org/sites/default/files/d7/ADavies-capital-gains-rate-1-JPG.jpg)[[image] ](https://www.mercatus.org/sites/default/files/d7/ADavies-effective-corporate-rate-2-PDF.jpg)[[image] ](https://www.mercatus.org/sites/default/files/d7/ADavies-social-security-and-medicare-3-PDF.jpg)[[image] ](https://www.mercatus.org/sites/default/files/d7/ADavies-average-marginal-income-tax-rates-4-PDF_0.jpg)[[image] ](https://www.mercatus.org/sites/default/files/d7/ADavies-marginal-income-tax-rates-5-PDF.jpg) What’s my point ? Same as the point I made earlier: as a nation, we talk a whole lot abou… Click the down arrow to see the post in its entirety (without leaving this page). --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-some-believe-that-lower-taxes-for-high-income-people-is-good-for-the-economy/953423)._