Quote Originally Posted by blumpkin blownuts View Post
It's part of how we won WW2, by charging 94% fucking tax on income in 1944 for couples making $250,000+
Granted that leaves them with at least $15k for the year, which was enough to survive very comfortably in those days. And they stayed and paid the tax instead of uprooting and moving to fucking cocos islands. They were in a total-war, but they were also patriots at heart.

But the tax brackets didn't decrease much for the "1%'ers" (back then the 0.001%'ers) until the reagan years, when it was decided it would be time to really test out the failed trickle-down economics experiement.
It was necessary during WW2. We were fighting for our very existence. They promised it was a temporary measure until the war was over. Last I checked, though, Hitler and Tojo are long dead and I'm still paying a big chunk of my check to the feds. And people like you want to increase it another 10 or 15%, thanks, it's nice to know you have the best interests of the working man in mind.

Also, like I mentioned the other day (and you ignored), exxon paid 17% of its US income, about 1.3 billion dollars. Are you honestly suggesting the government is entitled to more than that? What would make you happy? 40%? 75%?