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notion that those clinton tax rates would be disastrous for job creation. it has not seemed to be a discussion particularly amenable to evidence. let s try some anyway. we have a graph, t what you ll see on it, they did something interesting. they looked at job creation over periods of time which had different top marginal tax rates. different top tax rates for the people the republicans call the job creators. what they found, i think, is essentially destroys this argument. the best years, the best years for job creation in this country actually had the highest marginal tax rates. the best five years from 1950, the the highest bar there is in the 75% to 80% top tax bracket. that s when you really saw job creation just roaring along. that little tiny red line, the little itty bitty one with the no job creation, that s where we are now.
actually had the highest marginal tax rates. if you look at five best years since 1950, you ll find tax rates above 70 at the highest marginal rate. the highest bar there is in the 75% to 80% top tax bracket. that s when you really saw job creation just roaring along. that little tiny red line, the little itty bitty one with the no job creation, that s where we are now. very, very low top marginal rate, very, very low job creation. i don t want to go too far. it s important to say we don t want extremely high marginal tax rates. they do discourage work. we don t think taxes in general are great for the economy, neither are spending cuts on things like unemployment insurance. we find taxes are not the driving factor behind the economy. republicans have a tendency to make taxes seem monocausal, that the economy is a simple formula. one end of the formula is taxes.
it has not seemed to be a discussion particularly amenable to evidence. let s try some anyway. we have a graph, the center of american progress, that i brought along tonight. what you ll see on it, they did something interesting. they looked at job creation over periods of time which had different top marginal tax rates. different top tax rates for the people the republicans call the job creators. what they found, i think, is essentially destroys this argument. the best years, the best years for job creation in this country actually had the highest marginal tax rates. the best five years from 1950, the the highest bar there is in the 75% to 80% top tax bracket. that s when you really saw job creation just roaring along. that little tiny red line, the little itty bitty one with the no job creation, that s where we are now. very, very low top marginal rate, very, very low job creation. i don t want to go too far.
and good morning to you. boy, the temperatures, top story again. wow. sizzling heat, and most of the country right now is dealing with triple digits or at least feeling like triple digits. as we ve been saying, not just uncomfortable, dangerous and deadly. welcome. friday, july 22nd. let s get right to it. intensely hot against across a huge portion of the country. it started in the midwest, it s come heeft. washington, the high, 103 today but it s going to feel like 115 with the humidity. triple digit temperatures are expected across the mid-atlantic, up and down the east coast and into the ohio valley and as many as 2,000 related deaths now reported. utilities around the country are bracing, asking you to conserve energy as people crank the ac. in new york, the power company said that store owners who leave their doors open could be fined. wow. trying to stay cool. match fn you re a polar bear in this heat? animals in the detroit zoo were treated to popsicles with