Posted by sdb on August 21, 2011, at 16:00:55
In reply to Re: (), posted by sigismund on August 21, 2011, at 0:35:02
> I don't know about the US, but in the UK after the war the top marginal tax rate was something like 19/6 in the pound.
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> We are so ahistorical these days.I wouldn't say ahistorical because, as Warren Buffet described, in the 70ties and 80ties taxes for the most wealthy were much higher and the economy worked better. Well, I don't personally but I am quite sure that Warren Buffet knows it, he's a little older than I am.
Unbelievable that this is America, this is a report from the German TV. They can't pay the police and firefighters.
http://www.ardmediathek.de/ard/servlet/content/3517136?documentId=7973440
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