I can't be the only one who cringed during Will Bailey's description of the scaled tax system on The West Wing last night. He described the percentage brackets as percentages of taxable income instead of marginal rates. I wonder whether Sorkin did it that way because it would take too long to explain it accurately or if he did it that way because he didn't know better. I've got a hunch it's the latter, but I'm not going to run the videotape back and check the whiteboard math to see.
(Yes, we have a VCR. I realize that may appear quaint to some of you out there....)
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