2016 Postmortem

fasttense

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42. You do know FDR proposed a 100% top marginal rate

Fri Nov 20, 2015, 12:09 AM

Nov 2015

But then congress changed it to 95%. So, after their first 20k+ the uber rich got to keep only 5 cents for every dollar they made. It stayed in the high 70s/80s/90s during the most prosperous years of this nation.

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