Amity Shlaes has a nifty Bloomberg View column about Andrew Mellon, the wealthy Treasury secretary under Calvin Coolidge who in 1926 succeeded in getting the top individual income tax rate cut to 25% from 46%. "Federal revenue increased after each rate cut," she says.
Shlaes on Mellon
https://www.futureofcapitalism.com/2012/02/shlaes-on-mellon
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