Watch how radically taxes on the wealthy have fallen over the past 70 years:

[Qutzupalotl]

informative animation at link:

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[Qutzupalotl]

1. Notice how the burden is shifted to lower incomes over time.

[SergeStorms]

5. And the Federal Deficit.....

don't forget the Federal Deficit, you know the deficit the republicans really care about when there's a democrat as president. When the GOP controls the White House and at least one house of Congress, "deficits don't matter"*.

* Ronald Reagan

[BigmanPigman]

2. What will break this, a revolution by the masses?

I doubt that will happen in my lifetime.

[KPN]

3. Elect progressives. That will help.

[roamer65]

4. I've advocated returning them to the 1982 rate.

That may be too modest, but given the loss of deductions since then a 50 percent marginal rate would be more like 60 percent.

It would be adjusted for inflation and would be a good first step, along with capital controls to prevent the flight of wealth.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

6. K&R