Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is floating a 70 percent top tax rate -- here's the research that backs her

[RHMerriman]

2. Indeed...

And the historical reality is that DDE asked for, and got, acceptance of a much higher bracket than that during the early years of the Cold War for national defense purposes - which included domestic infrastructure programs like the interstate highway system and major civil science research and education efforts, not just deployed forces and defense R&D.

Good precedent for AOC to raise, actually.