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tax rate
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Tax rate
The percentage of tax paid for different levels of income.
Tax Rate
A percentage of one's income that one must pay in taxes. Tax rates vary according to incomes. That is, one who makes $100,000 per year usually has a higher tax rate than one who makes $25,000. See also: Marginal tax rate, Average tax rate.
tax rate
The proportional amount of taxes paid on a given income or the given dollar value of an asset. If the tax is calculated on the basis of total income, it is the average tax rate. If the tax is calculated only on extra units of income, the rate is the marginal tax rate.
tax rate

The percentage used to calculate various taxes.
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We have now seen for certain what was then only suspected: that cuts in top marginal rates benefit the wealthy more than the economy on a long-term basis (you don’t see the rich firing themselves), and that Milton Friedman, the god of economic inequality, is basically full of crap if what you’re looking for is long-lasting democratic capitalism.
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