High marginal tax rates with inflation worsening their effect through bracket creep did their part.

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But the fix is temporary, and does nothing to deal with another AMTproblem: bracket creep.

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That income will seem even less after inflation, higher taxes and bracket creep have done their nasty work.

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It leads to tax bracket creep for individuals increasing their tax rates in addition to the total tax amount.

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These adjustments prevent inflation-induced increases in tax rates, an effect called bracket creep.

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He also indexed the tax brackets for all taxpayers to inflation, which prevented inflation from pushing middle class taxpayers into higher tax brackets (bracket creep).

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Second is bracket creep, whereby small businessmen and even truck drivers could suddenly find themselves paying 40% and even 50% in taxes on their marginal income.

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Revenues, by contrast, oscillated narrowly around the long-run 18% average between 1962 and 1978, after which rapid inflation quickly drove revenues up to 19.6% in 1982 due to bracket creep.

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The group has argued that that corporate taxes, payroll taxes and so-called "bracket creep"--where taxpayers are bumped into a higher tax bracket because of inflation--are all examples of hidden taxes.

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Inflation pushed up taxes by way of bracket creep.

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