How’d we get there at the time? Was it public political will? The need to fund the world wars? Did we always have high rates and only in the last few decades back off from that being the norm?
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They said, posting on threads and supporting said billionaires prosperity.
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Except that is entirely incorrect? It is almost solely because the USA was 50% of the world economy at the time. Restoring the top marginal tax rate to 91% will not return us to prosperity
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