Apr 18, 2012 ... The 1950s was a decade of high economic growth and high tax rates. ... If you  measure the decade from 1951 to 1960, it grew at 3.6% rate, a bit above average . ... This could suggest that rates are right around the Laffer Curve ... or 70 percent  or even 90 percent, from the current top rate of 35 percent.”.
May 17, 2015 ... The "highest economic growth decade was the 1960s. Income tax rates were 90  percent," Gates told CNN's Fareed Zakaria. "I mean, the idea ...
Jun 1, 2015 ... So superhigh tax rates would be no barrier to fast economic growth today, right?  ... Returning to the 90 percent top tax rates of the 1950s would probably ... The  average individual income tax rate in 1960 reached an average rate of ... reasons  that are impossible to duplicate today, including a decade-long ...
Dec 11, 2018 ... Beginning in the 1970s, economic growth slowed and the income gap widened.  ... The broad facts of income inequality over the past six decades are easily ...  nearly 39 percent in 2016, while the share held by the bottom 90 percent .... With  the 2018 changes, CBO's distributional tables now rank people by ...
May 18, 2015 ... The highest economic growth decade was the 1960s. Income tax rates were 90  percent. He stated this on CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS.
The "highest economic growth decade was the 1960s. Income tax rates were 90 percent."