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		thaumasiotes on March 4, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: High-tax states like California and New York make ... That model doesn't say anything about the effect of taxes. You can just as easily say that high incomes cause high taxes. Is that all the "empirical data" you were thinking of?

darawk on March 4, 2019 [–]

Did you have any you were thinking of? You're the one that made a specific claim - that taxes reduce pre-tax income levels. I see no evidence in support of that, and a lot of circumstantial evidence that cuts against it.

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