Lucky Luke
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Ahh the 50's. When America was great and everybody wanted to live there.
Id be ok with the 70%. Its only after they make a crazy amount of money, and it would be nice to not drive over bridges that are falling apart.
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Fogdog
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It's not rocket science. We have to spend about the same amount as our income. Figure it out. You seem to think you have the ability to criticize. So then, how about offering an alternative to increasing taxes on people with the means to pay for them if you don't like it.
By your logic we should just print money. After all it's too much to ask the people who are getting the most benefit from living here to pay as you go.
Your syntax leads me to believe that English isn't you're first language. Your contrarían bullshit makes no sense so I know you're just trolling. SMH step it up comrade.
I used to help my Peruvian cousins with their English homework and practice pronunciation with them. You suck.
This asshole too.
hotrodharley
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Please know that with those extremely high tax rates PEOPLE STILL BECAME VERY VERY RICH!!!! Including new millionaires every frigging year. Businesses GREW! People could buy homes and we built an incredible interstate highway system.
But those rates were “unfair” and “strangled” businesses and personal fortunes. The Reagan siren song. Loved and sung by low wage jackasses who will never be rich. But they just might! It might happen so they need the tax rates down on high incomes so when they DO get rich they can stay rich.
Lucky Luke
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It was the golden time of American manufacturing, housing, household wealth. The American dream was as real as it got. Then the long slow decline started, people stopped caring about their neighbours and those less fortunate than themselves. Americas war machine started to roll out to enhance business interests and to deflect public scrutiny of its government.
It will be interesting to see what America looks like in another 30 years. (I'll be 80 then if im lucky).
tangerinegreen555
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I got ridiculous in the 1980's.
As late as 1971, Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier got $2.5 million a piece to fight. They both cleared less than $1 million.
Johnny Carson and other TV stars were paid deferred money to avoid the high tax rates all at once.
None of those people starved with their multiple property estates and fancy cars.
JFK cut the top tax rate from 91% to 67% to spur growth in the early '60's.
It was a brilliant idea that has been totally abused with subsequent adminstrations. They had ballanced budgets every year back then. Then came Vietnam, OPEC & oil company collusion and St. Reagan's military buildup and endless wars.
Now, everything over budget is on Uncle Sam's credit card.
TacoMac
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Yep.
Small wonder that to this day he has the overall highest average approval rating of all time at 70.1%.
Second to him is Eisenhower at 65%.
No other president gets remotely close to either of them.
The lowest in living memory? Trump at 39%.
Moldy
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I still think JFK's assassination was done by the right wing gestapo. Nixon had a hand in it too. Motherfuckers.
https://freespeech.org/stories/bill-barr-john-f-kennedy/
Sir Napsalot
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Except perhaps segregated blacks in the South
hotrodharley
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Or “Mexicans” in Texas and the Southwest. When I was just learning to read I’d read everything I could. Loved the Burma Shave signs. There was way more than a few businesses, always an eatery or a bar, with a sign “No Colored. No Mexicans”. I asked my mom why and she referred me to Pop. Every time he’d pass a graveyard he’d comment on how many “good Messkins or n*****s” were there.
Unclebaldrick
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Yeah, it certainly couldn't be done by the crazy ex-marine sniper with a rifle in that fourth floor window overlooking the parade route.
knucklehead bob
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I'm sure I'll catch nothing but harassment & ridicule for this but Lee Harvey Oswald was just as he said he was , a patsy ! Anyone that believes otherwise , I've got some prime California coast property to sell ya ! It will take a great deal of intestinal fortitude to watch the following video & do some fact checking but I'll try anyway......
hotrodharley
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I don’t know who else was involved but he damned sure didn’t plan this and pull this off alone. For one thing I think he went to the theatre because he was supposed to meet someone there. If a Marine was running he’d surely not corner himself in a building so close to the scene if he could avoid it. I think he believed he’d be extracted. Instead he was abandoned. He’s the only ex-Marine there used to be until these shithead generals encouraged and enabled Trump. I will never think of Kelly as a Marine again. No salute. No Semper Fi. Fuck that sonofabitch.
knucklehead bob
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Lyndon Baines Johnson , George Herbert Walker Bush , J Edgar Hoover , just to name a few .....
Unclebaldrick
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Yikes.
hotrodharley
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Why do you think the prize money was as much as it was? Figure it out. The rate was 70% for anything over 200,000. They figure out what they have to have to fight and then added the additional to make sure their net was what they could live with.
hotrodharley
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None of that has ever been proven but they’d be on the short list of suspects I’d write up. Definitely wealthy and powerful bastards.