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The argument that raising taxes at the top can offset the cost of raising the personal tax-free allowance does not work based on arithmetic.
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- Hannah Ritchie Data scientist at Our World in Data and author of Not the End of the World
In particular, the argument that you can get it back by raising taxes at the top (effectively transferring income from the top to the bottom) would really not work, even just based on arithmetic.
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