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Really? That doesn't make any sense to me. "Oh my, I'm making marginally less take-home money. I should completely change my career and get even less money!"

Remember it's a marginal tax system. They would only get taxed more on the amount they are making over 250k.

No matter what the tax rate goes to, you'll still be bringing home more money by having a higher paying job.

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> Will people create wealth if they can't get paid for it? Only if it's fun. People will write operating systems for free. But they won't install them, or take support calls, or train customers to use them. And at least 90% of the work that even the highest tech companies do is of this second, unedifying kind.

http://paulgraham.com/gap.html

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