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To: c.hinton who wrote (2687)	11/10/2008 12:42:51 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3816

73 is still alot less than 91 And top nominal income tax rates do not equal percentage of income paid in taxes. As long as that factor is significant (and it clearly is) it doesn't have to be exactly quantified, to show that the top tax rates is insufficient data to support your idea. If you have data that shows "its close enough", than you could still use top tax rates for these calculations, or better yet use your data to show the actual income tax paid, and use that. But absent such data from either side the simple fact that top income tax rates do not equal the actual percentage of income paid in taxes, means that if you are basing your argument on top tax rates, that you don't have much of an argument. I really think this conversation has gone on long enough. You don't except any argument that doesn't have tremendous detail to back it up, but you provide little in the way of relevant detail yourself. And even besides that it has just been too many posts over a minor issue (at least minor from my viewpoint, maybe you care greatly about it, but I don't)