-by NoahOf course, the corporate masters and their pathetic, sycophantic tools in Washington aren't going to raise taxes on the rich back to a sane level. They won't even raise them back to the level of the Reagan years, let alone consider the day in 1963 when JFK proposed to lower the top tax rate from 91% down to 65%. No wonder he got shot in the streets of Dallas. 65% was controversial then. It was also controversial when the Revenue Act of 1964 lowered the corporate tax rate from 52% to 47%. Thanks to the Trump/Ryan Tax Scam Of 2017, the later will now be 21%, not counting loopholes, deductions, etc., even subsidies for many; taken form our tax dollars, of course. Just think of the golden opportunities for money laundering for newly minted oligarchs! And, who better to oversee it all but Trump's Secretary of Commerce, Wilbur Ross?Gee, despite all those horribly high "job killing" tax rates back then, the economy worked so well that we could afford to waste money and lives on Vietnam, loan money to kids for college (myself included) at reasonable, non-usury rates, build cars here, and put men on the moon. Now, in late 2017, I can think of many men I'd like to put on the moon, sans spacesuits.There is one thing we can still afford to make here in the good ol' U.S.A.: Guillotines.
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