When is a tax hike not a tax hike?

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Exactly. I'd bet that if you raise taxes on the super-wealthy to 50%, their effective tax rate wouldn't change much.

Don't bother raising taxes on the super rich. The highest income bracket is supposed to pay 35%. Get their effective tax rates closer to what they should be.

Yeah; let's stick it to the rich by increasing their taxes because they have all our money, and hope they won't increase the prices of their goods and services to us so that we pay the tax increase that we imposed on them to stick it to them. The bottom line is who sticks it to who?