Tax Rates, Inequality and the 1% – Wall Street Journal

December 6, 2011 Posted By: Leave a comment
Changes in the tax law in 1986, for example, evoked a remarkable response—with capital gains accounting for an extraordinary 47.7% of top earners' reported income as investors rushed to cash in gains before the capital gains tax rose to 28%.
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