Being in the 50% tax bracket does not mean paying 50% of your income in taxes.

AnthonyMouse · on Nov 16, 2015

The people engaging in significant tax avoidance aren't the ones who make $1 more than the threshold for the highest tax bracket, they're the people (and corporations) who make many millions or billions of dollars and would otherwise have an effective tax rate that has converged to the highest marginal rate.

pstrateman · on Nov 16, 2015

In california it often does.