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US Federal Income Tax Rates 1900-2010

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Year US Federal Income Tax Rates 1900 0.00 1901 0.00 1902 0.00 1903 0.00 1904 0.00 1905 0.00 1906 0.00 1907 0.00 1908 0.00 1909 0.00 1910 0.00 1911 0.00 1912 0.00 1913 1 7 1914 1 7 1915 1 7 1916 2 15 1917 2 67 1918 6 77 1919 4 73 1920 4 73 1921 4 73 1922 4 58 1923 3 43.5 1924 1.5 46 1925 1.13 25 1926 1.13 25 1927 1.13 25 1928 1.13 25 1929 0.38 24 1930 1.13 25 1931 1.13 25 1932 4 63 1933 4 63 1934 4 63 1935 4 63 1936 4 79 1937 4 79 1938 4 79 1939 4 79 1940 4.4 81.1 1941 10 81 1942 19 88 1943 19 88 1944 23 94 1945 23 94 1946 19 86.45 1947 19 86.45 1948 16.6 82.13 1949 16.6 82.13 1950 17.4 84.36 1951 20.4 91 1952 22.2 92 1953 22.2 92 1954 20 91 1955 20 91 1956 20 91 1957 20 91 1958 20 91 1959 20 91 1960 20 91 1961 20 91 1962 20 91 1963 20 91 1964 16 77 1965 14 70 1966 14 70 1967 14 70 1968 14 75.25 1969 14 77 1970 14 71.75 1971 14 70 1972 14 70 1973 14 70 1974 14 70 1975 14 70 1976 14 70 1977 14 70 1978 14 70 1979 14 70 1980 14 70 1981 14 69.13 1982 12 50 1983 11 50 1984 11 50 1985 11 50 1986 11 50 1987 11 38.5 1988 15 28 1989 15 28 1990 15 28 1991 15 31 1992 15 31 1993 15 39.6 1994 15 39.6 1995 15 39.6 1996 15 39.6 1997 15 39.6 1998 15 39.6 1999 15 39.6 2000 15 39.6 2001 10 39.1 2002 10 38.6 2003 10 35 2004 10 35 2005 10 35 2006 10 35 2007 10 35 2008 10 35 2009 10 35 2010 10 35

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1929-1939: “A Decade that will live — in stupidity.”

Why Stuck on Stupid?

Seventy years ago the leaders of both US political parties turned away from the policies that had created an economic powerhouse we call the Roaring Twenties. For ten long years Americans suffered through wrenching economic dislocations: deflation, inflation, a four-year economic contraction, endless unemployment, mindless political experiments, and ruthless attacks on businessmen for political gain as their leaders stayed Stuck on Stupid.

Today, after a twenty-five year economic boom, Americans are once more faced with a political elite that wants to monkey with success. It wants to raise tax rates. It wants to restrict trade. It wants to increase government power.

It’s time to look back and remind ourselves how it came to be, starting in 1929, that America got itself Stuck on Stupid. Otherwise it could happen again.

 — Christopher Chantrill

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