http://www.jamesmayhew.co.uk/2016/05/a-penny-for-your-thoughts-the-true-cost-of-bargain-books.html    My reaction was yes, yes, yes ( Read more... )

So the right wing is now claiming that asking the very rich to give up their tax cuts (or even part of their tax cuts) is "class warfare."   Let's look at the facts, shall we?

The tax rate for the wealthy reached its peak in 1945, at 66.4%.    And yet, amazingly enough, we had an economic boom in the post WWII period.   Kind of suggests that high ( Read more... )