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[-] MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

Forget 39%. We have greater national debt as a percentage of GDP than we did in 1944. We need to reinstitute the tax brackets from then until 1965, which had a top rate of 90%. There are reasons we had a middle class back then, and this is one of them.

[-] UndergroundParking@lemmy.cafe -1 points 1 week ago

Nobody paid that 90%. Just like today, there were methods around it.

[-] MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

What mulgrubs said, plus at least they had to work for it. Today, it's just handed to them.

[-] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

But they paid much more, and that's the point.

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