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 14 hours ago
Nobody paid that 90%. Just like today, there were methods around it.
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
But they paid more, and that’s the point.