It wasn't that common, but it was a real phenomenon that personal income margina...

ptaipale on Feb 27, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: How Ikea's Billy bookcase took over the world

It wasn't that common, but it was a real phenomenon that personal income marginal taxes could exceed 100 %. The Social Democrats in Sweden got angry when Astrid Lindgren pointed it out, and it seems some Hacker News readers with a downvote button become angry in the same way when this is mentioned.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomperipossa_in_Monismania

jacobush on Feb 27, 2017 [–]

Maybe a pedant got angry. AFAIK it never exceeded 100%, but it could get pretty close to 100% which is kind of an outrage in itself.