In a progressive tax system, that also means that the amount of tax payable will be smaller since tax rates tend to decrease with taxable income (with some exceptions, of course).

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The authors found that high top marginal income tax rates tended to decrease the share of entrepreneurship in a state.

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Were he to do so, I expect he would find a considerable decrease in the opposition to lowering income tax rates for the wealthy on the part of those liberals he so fervently wishes to crush.

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The tax cuts coincided with a decrease of the budget deficit as a percentage of national income.

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