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[โ€“] mkwt@lemmy.world 34 points 2 days ago (1 children)

In 1953, the top bracket marginal income tax rate was 92%. And of course Europe and Asia were reeling from the loss and wealth destruction of the Second Thirty Years' War. But let's just not talk about that.

They tell the masses it's 1950 but what they actually want us 1850, the period of the robber barons.