What should the top rate of income tax be? Should it be 70 per cent, as has been informally suggested by the young star of the US Democratic party, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez? That instinctively feels too high to me. But, as an economist with sporadic hopes of making logical arguments based on evidence, I admit that “instinctively feels too high” is a weak response.
所得稅的最高稅率應該是多少?是否應該是美國民主黨(Democratic party)新星、國會女議員亞歷山德里婭•奧卡西奧-柯爾特斯(Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez)非正式提議的70%?我本能地感覺這太高了。但是,作爲一名偶爾希望根據證據進行邏輯論證的經濟學家,我承認,「本能地感覺太高」沒有什麼說服力。
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