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Originally Posted by Ark2
I have addressed this already in this thread, but the top 1% were not paying much more during Eisenhower's administration than they are now:
Second, to attribute America flourishing during the 1950's to a high tax rate (that no one even actually paid) is ridiculous. WWII decimated most of the world, while the US escaped relatively unscathed. That had an enormous impact on America's rise as an economic superpower and had nothing to do with taxes. Were you to implement those tax rates and actually enforce them today, it would amount to economic chaos.
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This is some top notch bootlicking.