TAX FACTS FOR FOX HACKS
When the wealthy citizens of a democracy are no longer willing to pay their fair share in taxes to the country which allowed for their financial success, then that society is destined to wither and fall into the same cycle of bloody revolution and reconstruction it saw in its birth from monarchy and slavery.-Chip Shirley
From 1940 to 1980 in the USA taxes on the most wealthy were between 70% and 94%. Fact, not AM-Fox-Fiction...See for yourself...DATA LINK:
This was the most amazing period of growth and accomplishment by any nation since the ancient Greeks or the Roman Empire...During those four decades...
1. We fought WWII, the Korean War and the Vietnam War.
2. We built every major bridge and tunnel you can name and our entire inter-state highway system.
3. We went to the moon six times!
...And we paid for all of it!
What has America done since 1980 that we're so proud of as we cut taxes on the rich and watch our debt soar? Nothing. Instead, we've cut our investments in education and infrastructure and the people behind our one great private sector accomplishment (Information Technology) like Bill Gates, are begging us to go back to higher taxes on the most wealthy!
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
-George Santayana
