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Here's the chart I'm pretty sure you're thinking of: http://s.wsj.net/public/resources/images/ED-AH556B_ranso_200...

from the 2008 Wall Street Journal article titled "You Can't Soak the Rich": http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121124460502305693.html

The phenomenon is called Hauser's Law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hauser's_Law

and intelligent criticism of the chart can be found here: http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/odd-numbers/2008/05/20/...

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You sir, are a gentleman and a scholar. Thanks for bringing those articles up. I checked the last link you mentioned, and I wasn't really satisfied with the criticism. Maybe I just didn't understand the article, but it seemed to me that all the author said was "A lot of other tax rates balanced out the highest marginal tax rate shown in the curve." I would have liked to see an alternate conclusion instead of a simple refutation. But again, thank you very much for the links.

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