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An argument I often hear against raising taxes is that all the companies/billionaires will simply move away. In the US during the 1950s they had a top marginal tax rate of 91%. Did any companies/billionaires move away? Why did they or did they not move away, and what effect did it have?

by /u/391or392 in /r/AskHistorians

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