tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1283394533447423776.post6428932785958911222..comments2023-10-09T02:49:36.054-07:00Comments on OC Domer: Our own Greek tragedyOC Domerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17452221551362652427noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1283394533447423776.post-14290994733516776062010-03-08T09:54:10.736-08:002010-03-08T09:54:10.736-08:00Other than hauling all 537 elected officals out to...Other than hauling all 537 elected officals out to the back forty chaining them to trees and collecting them when the stench disipates, my thoughs would lean to the www.FairTax.org <br />If you spend alot you pay a lot. No undocumented (illeagal) worker would be exempt, nor would any tax loop hole citizen. Cost of goods would decline and as a result many corporations would flock to the US.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1283394533447423776.post-11266606003812040552010-03-07T20:56:30.601-08:002010-03-07T20:56:30.601-08:00Hmmm, several problems with Chris's observatio...Hmmm, several problems with Chris's observations.<br /><br />1. 90% was simply the highest marginal rate, not an average or overall rate.<br /><br />2. We didn't "tax ourselves into prosperity." The government got a lot of money along with everyone else because we happened to have the world's only intact industrial economy. The war put the entire country to work and the Titushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01905201479928703850noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1283394533447423776.post-72797402218244842482010-03-07T16:23:17.978-08:002010-03-07T16:23:17.978-08:00we taxed ourselves into prosperity in the 50's...we taxed ourselves into prosperity in the 50's and 60's! that hollywood yahoo who was pushed to presidency by corporations in 1980 unleashed "the bull" that let the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. the tax rate on the rich in the 50's and 60's was 90%!!! its how we built our interstate highway system paid for our (then impressive) schools, and laid the ground Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08709826851921329396noreply@blogger.com