• FriendBesto
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    8 months ago

    We can’t. Unless you want another world war, kill tens of millions, and destroy most of Western Europe, have Nazis, and nuke a country. Not to mention billions less on the planet.

    This is what eventually pushed for the Marshall Plan that did help Europe and fuel the reconstruction that followed in the USA and elsewhere. Like the boomers lived through a period of time that was quite far, far from ‘normal.’ Only because it happened it does not mean that it was historically normal, nor does the remove the nuances of the time period, both the so-called good along with the horrible.

    Problem seems to be that the lady on OP’s post has the Historical knowledge and nuance of a toddler. Is that the average education system in the USA? Because if so, holy shit.

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      8 months ago

      Back then there was this thing called the marginal tax rate which taxed the extremely wealthy 90%.

      Current proposals for a marginal tax rate on anyone making over 10 million dollars is 70% and the billionaires of this country are using their wealth to convince the stupidest of the lower classes that such a thing will hurt them and not just the billionaires.