We are way over in the “Region of Declining Revenue” on the right, and everyone knows it.
If Democrats were interested in the Government doing good things, they would cut taxes so the Government would get more money with which to do good things.
Because they demonstrably do not want to decrease taxes to increase revenue to do more good things, one must find the real reason(s) Democrats want to maintain stupidly high tax rates.
Answers include:
1) Control over you.
2) Using Envy and Punishment of the “Rich” to motivate their voters.
Because stupid high tax rates can’t be explained by any Good Government theory.
Democrats’ reasons for maintaining stupidly high tax rates demonstrates that they are knowingly evil.
During the Reagan presidency, the top marginal rate of tax in the United States fell from 70% to 31%. According to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) historical data, federal government revenue as a percentage of GDP fell from 19.0% of GDP in 1980 to 18.4% by 1989. However, absolute revenues nearly doubled during the same time period.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laffer_curve