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Oh, another interesting thing I read. We seem to only collect 19.5% of the GDP. It does not matter what the tax rate is, that's all we ever collect (interesting statistic). If that's the case, then to maximize tax collection, you would want to do whatever raises the GDP.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hauser%27s_Law