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"Moderate" is way too vague to mean anything in the context of your post, especially since you place it against two caricatures.
O.K. Since a former President and a former Vice-President are merely "caricatures" please provide a non-vague "in context" definition of a political moderate.
Interesting chart. Arguably the best of times, 50s and 60s. The bad times start in the 80s, and 90s, and look further, the years leading up to the Great Depression. Hmmmmm correlation?
Interesting chart. Arguably the best of times, 50s and 60s. The bad times start in the 80s, and 90s, and look further, the years leading up to the Great Depression. Hmmmmm correlation?
We need to get that top tax rate back to at least 1980 levels to straighten out this country.
We need to get that top tax rate back to at least 1980 levels to straighten out this country.
Which is precisely why the Kochs of this Country are fighting and spending so much to buy pols and fool large segments of the society. Even though returning to those successful levels helps them, they fear it. Strange phenomenon, greed.
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Which is precisely why the Kochs of this Country are fighting and spending so much to buy pols and fool large segments of the society. Even though returning to those successful levelsit helps them, they fear it. Strange phenomenon, greed.
That's also why they pay to keep Rush and the rest of the right wing nuts on the air even though the lose money.
No I wasn't. I misunderstood your point to mean he hiked the rate to 90%.
From the chart and footnotes:
<7>For 1954-1963, the highest tax rate was subject to a maximum effective rate limitation equal to 87% of statutory "taxable income."
I'm trying to figure out what your assertion is.
My assertion is the biggest problem with America today is the accumulation of wealth by the top 1% to the destruction of the rest in the country. I believe that if that rate was still at 90% the jobs would not have gone overseas because there would have been no benefit to the top 1%.
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