>Historical US Federal income tax rates : > >http://www.ntu.org/main/page.php?PageID=19 > > >US GDP historical chart: > >http://www.economics-charts.com/gdp/gdp-1929-2004.html#arithmetic > >and look at per capita GDP as well. > >http://www.measuringworth.org/usgdp/ > > >The numbers show a clear trend after tax rates were lowered. An explosion of >wealth occurred in this country since 1980. That is no accident. >
Actually not so. In any trend analysis you have to eliminate any competing explanations of the data, or show that your hypothesis has better explanatory power. You've done neither. For all we really know the trending may be because of the number of foil hats worn by the republican faithful, or Sam in particular (although by now I suspect its grafted to his scalp). Based on the same data I can show an equivalent trend due to more people getting help from the government. Which one is correct? I suspect neither. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:275321 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
