I've been saying THAT for years,
but I wouldn't stop at 42% on the Top Bracket.
I would go all the way back to the early 60s.
Eisenhower set the rate of the Top at 92%,
and claimed that the RICH had a Patriotic Duty to help pay down the War Debt,
and they DID!
JFK later lowered the rate to 72% AFTER the National Debt was paid down....
AND America PROSPERED,
and built the largest, wealthiest, and most Upwardly Mobile Working Class the World had ever seen,
AND....some people STILL got RICH!
Face It!
The Democratic Party Leadership is fighting FOR Historically LOW Taxes on the RICH,
and will claim THAT as a HUGE Victory!
39.5% will NOT make a difference to the RICH, the Poor, OR the Deficit.
72%.... or 90%...
Now THAT is worthy of a Democratic Party fight,
and is also HOW this debate should be framed.
The Republicans would come slithering on their bellies
BEGGING for 42%!
Oh Well.
Everything is rainbows in Centrist New Democrat Heaven.
[font color=firebrick][center]"There are forces within the Democratic Party who want us to sound like kinder, gentler Republicans.
I want a party that will STAND UP for Working Americans."
---Paul Wellstone [/font][/center]
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