[goldstategop]

With a top rate of 35%, we are better off than Europe but by not much.

We cannot offer a flat tax like Russia has to encourage people to come live and invest here and create good-paying jobs.

13% is why Gerard Depardieu left France to settle in Russia because he didn’t want to pay his country’s confiscatory taxes on his income.

I believe in people keeping their wealth and using it to benefit others and they can do that much better than the government can do it.

[Windflier]

We cannot offer a flat tax like Russia has to encourage people to come live and invest here and create good-paying jobs.

Well, we can, but we'll have to dispose of all the Commies in Congress first to get the tax rates lowered.

[Soul of the South]

“With a top rate of 35%, we are better off than Europe but not by much.”

Top rate for federal income tax in 2013 is 39.6%. Add social security and state income taxes and it is easy to be over 50%.