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In reply to the discussion: Capitalism is NOT a dirty word. [View all]JHB
(37,160 posts)Last edited Thu Mar 6, 2014, 05:41 PM - Edit history (1)
...and simply allowing conservatives to reduce it all to black-and-white works in their favor, not ours. We have to take the word back and make it clear that it's not their toy to play with.
The bumper sticker version is:
Conservatives have spent 30 years dismantling the economic system that defeated Communism so that they could send us back to the one that spawned it.
That's why I try to cook up images like the one below, so that people can wrap their minds around how much has really changed, how the version of capitalism in the past gets called "socialism" by RWers (and "centrists" .
Tax brackets for selected years (adjusted to 2013 dollars)
(image is incomplete -- not all percentages have been filled in -- but the adjusted income levels of the brackets are accurate)
(edited to clarify the chart is in terms of 2013 dollars)