Economy rescue: Adding up the dollars

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Avinash_Tyagi said:

GDP growth has been rather constant through out the last hundred plus years, especially since the depression, regarldess of how high the rich are being taxed



The assumption that GDP will go down and tax dollars will go down just isn't supported by history, in fact in the 1940's -1970's we saw strong GDP growth even with higher taxes

 

It grows as people grow, but there are some strong local drops and rises. It would be interesting to see how that correlates with taxes. I can see the biggest jump after the 1950's was when Kennedy slashed taxes. What causes the big drop in what looks to be 1975?