In 2012, in the Wall Street Journal, Economists Peter Diamond

Multiple Choice

In 2012, in The Wall Street Journal, economists Peter Diamond and Emmanuel Saez asserted the following:

A) Since World War II, higher tax rates on individuals with the highest incomes tend to be associated with higher rates of economic growth - not with lower rates of economic growth.
B) The average federal income tax rate on the top 1 percent of income-earners in the United States more than doubled between 1970 and 2010.
C) A "reasonable" increase in the tax rate on top income earners is all that is needed to solve long­term fiscal problems faced by the United States.
D) All of the above are correct.