FiveThirtyEight Yes, they have been higher. During and after World Wars I & II, and during the Great Society and Vietnam. The government needed the money, bad. But what would be their excuse today?
FiveThirtyEight I mean, it won the war.
FiveThirtyEight Coincidentally, in the 50s, Eisenhower was able to fund an infrastructure project- the Interstate highway system that is still in use today. Also, interesting how the national debt began to skyrocket & balloons out of control as that top tax rate begins to and continues to go ⬇️
FiveThirtyEight Guess what? Higher tax rates do nothing to quell income inequity. It's artificial. The government gets the money, will not be writing lower incomes checks, and will spend it and still crave more of our money. Fact is, we should be wanting less taxes due to efficient govt
FiveThirtyEight ABC only should pay higher taxes, since they want to.
FiveThirtyEight they where never at 70 percent. Now that democrat socialist want to tax at 70 percent we feel they should go first. To many billionaires are going to fight the democrats or take there money out of the country like they did in California
FiveThirtyEight I told you that years ago... TheDisinheritedKnight
FiveThirtyEight ABC hides the facts as usual... top earners rarely paid more than 20% after all the slight of hand and loopholes... none paid close to 70 FakeNews at the Clinton Network (one of them)!
FiveThirtyEight Who believes anything 385 says, they always get it wrong!!
FiveThirtyEight With all the deduction available how many actually paid the 70%. How about a flat tax of 20% for everyone.
FiveThirtyEight More liberal garbage
FiveThirtyEight Nice graph. First spike WW1 Second spike WW2, Korea and Vietnam On to Jimmy Carter when mortgage rates were 18%. Reagan lowered it and the economy boomed., while destroying the USSR.
FiveThirtyEight Now this is VERY interesting! Born in the 60's.
FiveThirtyEight That moment when you're getting ready to get screwed by the the Democrats and... Main stream media is the vaseline.
FiveThirtyEight When, according to republicans, America was “great”.
FiveThirtyEight Trump-anomics are set to Gut the working class Fatten the Bloated-endless wealth they amass Gold platted toilet throne to twitter aloud Spewing divisive propaganda the one percent so proud 🍊🇷🇺
FiveThirtyEight Really dont think those pretty faces that read teleprompters for your newscasts will want to have 70% taken from their earnings.
FiveThirtyEight Fuck that
FiveThirtyEight This is ABC fake news doing the work of the Democrats. You will be hearing Democrats want higher taxes. Fake news and Democrats are united
FiveThirtyEight Doesnt make it right
FiveThirtyEight Now plot tax revenues as a percentage of GDP. Nearly flat. Higher marginal rates drive more ingenious tax dodges.
FiveThirtyEight We also had books of deductions.
FiveThirtyEight Tax is high enough.
FiveThirtyEight Trump administration has screwed the middle class.
FiveThirtyEight Isn’t is strange that when America was supposedly great tax was a lot higher........
FiveThirtyEight psychiatric fraud on the rise, no sign of changing and no comment from any psychiatrists as to the real efficacy or cost of antipsychiatric off label prescribing other than from victims who are dead or people who are held incommunicado for weeks on falsified commitment papers.
FiveThirtyEight Only 8 people were required to pay them at the time
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