No, it hasn't. Percentage tax receipts have increased
Posted on: January 26, 2019 at 10:09:15 CT
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and stabilized over the years, but have never gone down.
That talking point about rates in the 50s has been debunked on many fronts including what the effective tax rate was after available deductions.
Also, a tax on wealth is not pretty new. Taxing income is a tax on wealth. The differentiation between income and wealth, that you may be attempting to draw, is a meaningless one.