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Default the american plutocracy

On Sat, 9 Oct 2010 14:45:36 GMT, "A.Boater"
wrote:

Why don't we just go back to a time when we actually had a good economy and
do things like they did?

During Eisenhower's tenure the top tax rate was 91%, during Nixon it was
50%, and now we are arguing about whether it should be 35% or 39.6%.

Anybody see a trend?



yep. the folks who work for a living pay more. the folks who shuffle
money around make more