I yearn for practical tax policy like we had for the fifty years following WWII. During that time the top marginal tax bracket never fell below 70 percent--the rich jerks payed their taxes, the middle class thrived, we were paying down the national debt from WWII and inequality was not a thing.

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https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/statistics/historical-highest-marginal-income-tax-rates#:~:text=Facebook.%20%C2%A9%20Urban%20Institute,%20Brookings%20Institution,%20and%20individual%20authors,%202024.