this 100% plays a big role! friends of mine have a USA trip booked & paid for like 3 month now… they won’t cancel - but they sure as hell would not book a new one.

took me a minute to realize that, too. The wording is just not too good in the graph. “Your tax bill would go up small amount” is not a proper sentence. I would have expected yes/no (which of course makes no sense either).

The question should have been: “if you earn $1 more now, will you have more or less money after tax?”.