In a word, no. Here is a graph a just threw together to illustrate the point:
Above: Inflation adjusted annual change in salary, plotted by decade (top marginal tax rate listed in the key), and normalized to 1 at the beginning of each decade to emphasize the relative increase over the decade.
If anything, the growth in GDP gets worse as tax rates go down. The 80's, with a top marginal tax rate ending at 28%, flat-lined. The 90's, with a tax rate at 39%, flatlined. And the aughts, with a tax rate at 35%, wishes it flatlined. And to be fair, if we discount out the two dips, it pretty much flatlined. But which decades did well? The 60's and 70's, with their 70% to 90% tax rate. Go figure...
This meme is dead now, right?
Whaddya mean "Yeah right"
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