Annual income of richest 100 people enough to end global poverty four times over

[HughBeaumont]

39. Hey, it works gangbusters for corporations, war profiteers and pharmaceutical conglomerates.

You do realize that, historically, when the wealthy are taxed appropriately, that's when America was at it's strongest and most equitable, right? Even a Republican like Eisenhower knew that, even though we had an expensive Cold War to maintain, veering back to the JJ Hill/Jay Gould/Rockefeller era of plutocracy and would be disastrous. He'd seen the horrors of war AND economic depression; the MBA bean counters of today that run our corporations have never seen first hand what grinding poverty is like. Guys like MacArthur did DuPont's bidding. Eisenhower would not and would continue to tax the wealthy despite all of their ridiculous blather about "Teh Creeping Red Menuhse".