Did a 90% tax rate reduce poverty, improve education, or have any other beneficial effect?
It was a 95% marginal tax rate, not 90%.
“There’s one for you nineteen for me,
‘Cause I’m the Taxman!
Yeah-ah, I’m the Taxman.
And you’re working for no one but me!”
From memory, any mistakes are mine, but that first is correct for sure.