1) 100 years ago the highest marginal tax was at 67%. But adjusted for inflation that was only charged once someone surpassed $35 million in annual earnings. Today the 40% tax bracket kicks in at $400,000. Adjust for inflation and that's not too far off 1980 levels before Reagan began his intense crusade to slash them as significantly as possible.
2) The very highest historical tax rates in American history are clustered around the World Wars. In this century, a lot people think it was the wrong choice to borrow money to fund our current wars instead of actually paying for them with available revenue (see: national debt)
3) Even after WW2, the highest tax rate went up to some absurdly high 92% or so. No one actually paid that much and most of the richest Americans were paying close to current tax rates: http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2013-01-02/1950s-tax-fantasy-is-a-republican-nightmare
So while you may disagree with Sanders and think the 92% should have been lower, for him to say those tax rates weren't obscene is meaningless to what he thinks about our current tax brackets. Failing to see that shows a complete lack of understanding for American history.
If you guys can't support Bernie cause once thought 90% tax rates were a good idea, can you really support Trump for thinking single payer was a good idea at the time and still thinks it would have worked back then.
And dems how can you really hate Trump, underneath all the sleaze there's a liberal deep down inside. Him and Bernie agree on just about everything from immigration, to assault rifle bans, single payer. Trump even wants to build a wall and make someone else pay for it, isn't that what progressives do? Spend a lot of money and make someone else pay for it?
And dems how can you really hate Trump, underneath all the sleaze there's a liberal deep down inside. Him and Bernie agree on just about everything from immigration, to assault rifle bans, single payer. Trump even wants to build a wall and make someone else pay for it, isn't that what progressives do? Spend a lot of money and make someone else pay for it?
I bet he's pro gay marriage too, thought I heard him say he was against the Iraq war too last night. And I don't buy for one second that he's really pro life. If he wasn't such an arrogant prick I bet dems would line up to vote for him.
If we could count on Trumps prior views being genuine, you're probably right. Trump is a phenomena we haven't seen on this stage in this Country. None of what we know about prior candidates and rules applies. 2 Weeks ago he was a Fake News creation. Right now, he's running as an extreme Conservative Righty, who is also slamming Fake News, that they're ganging up on him. 2 Weeks from now, who knows? It's crash TV, and that's why it's so entertaining.
Kelly's anti Trump agenda was very obvious. And we thought Candy Crowley was bad. Rand Paul and
the others vilifying Trump for not pledging allegiance to the party was pathetic. It only reinforced their
reputation of putting party before country, politics over policy, and reinforced peoples belief Trump will not be like that.
I agree. It'll be Interesting to see How Trump fares as the anti Conservative, anti Republican, Anti Fox News guy, for as long as he is that. Trump's background in WWE comes in handy. He was part of a Faction, they created him, and now they've turned on him. How much of the faction stays with the faction, how much of the faction follows the guy they threw out.
What's equally interesting is that Carly gained in status yesterday, specifically for lambasting Trump at the kiddie table. What happens when she lambastes him directly at the main table?
Megyn Kelly is dog meat
'Carly gained in status yesterday, specifically for lambasting Trump' What?
Carly was considered to have won the kiddie debate because she stuck out as organized, prepared and articulate.
Yet your contention is she gained status by lambasting Trump, good grief she mentioned that she didn't get
a call from Bill Clinton which went over like a lead balloon. Please tell me that's not your definition of lambasting someone,
Honestly do you really think Don Trump of all people is shivering in his boots worrying about facing Carly in any
setting let alone in a debate.
Do you really think Carly's presentation was that effective that she'll move up to the top ten in order to
'lambast' Trump to his face, that's very iffy. Who would she replace Paul, Christie maybe but unlikely.
After all Fiorina's debate wasn't flawless—a communications staffer for Rand Paul found her speech
ahead of the debate on a hotel printer and tweeted it. It was similar to a message Fiorina had expressed
earlier this week. Regardless of the leak, Fiorina still read the prepared speech.
My guess is that Fox needs Trump in there next scheduled debates more than Trump needs Fox
& that Kelly will lose more viewers than Trump will lose voters because of their spat, but we'll see.
Even Bloomberg wrote that Kelly's questioning was like something Rachel Maddow would have asked.
Trump is on good terms with many at Fox & it's obvious he's the presidential choice of Fox viewers.
To use a favorite word of yours let's say he's toying with a Fraction of that faction.
I can't believe how anyone from either party can respect Fox News.
But MSNBC is just as bad .
The sad thing is CNN has gotten much better the last 5 or 6 years but the ratings have nothing to show for it.
Apparently people enjoy this bullshit .
But MSNBC is just as bad .
The sad thing is CNN has gotten much better the last 5 or 6 years but the ratings have nothing to show for it.
Apparently people enjoy this bullshit .
It was a ratings ploy and it worked. FOX has been advertising the debate for 2 months and every other cable news outlet had their key people broadcasting from Cleveland even though it was shown on only one channel. If he did say those things why shouldn't they be brought up? They put Kasich on the spot with his gay rights position and he handled the question the way a presidential candidate should have.
If Hillary gets on the debate stage you can expect some tough questions, she is not well liked by the far left.
The questions will change when it is narrowed down to the two presidential candidates but for now it is all about the audience.
More people watched the debate because Trump was involved. It was more about ratings than it was about tearing down one candidate
If Hillary gets on the debate stage you can expect some tough questions, she is not well liked by the far left.
The questions will change when it is narrowed down to the two presidential candidates but for now it is all about the audience.
More people watched the debate because Trump was involved. It was more about ratings than it was about tearing down one candidate
