tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6955569682734184307.post4962783597541074734..comments2023-05-13T05:31:29.844-04:00Comments on The Hubster: If we want to dance...Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16952618158664674100noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6955569682734184307.post-91478853527933370342010-10-04T09:40:31.231-04:002010-10-04T09:40:31.231-04:00Dylan Thomas was killed by pneumonia exacerbated b...Dylan Thomas was killed by pneumonia exacerbated by smog in NYC and poor health care administered by a US doctor.N.starlunahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11558893672026000878noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6955569682734184307.post-69854170569940224112010-10-03T08:51:30.933-04:002010-10-03T08:51:30.933-04:00Really. But I am talking about the uber-wealthy he...Really. But I am talking about the uber-wealthy here AND giant corporations.<br /><br />Don't forget that the top tax rate was 90% during WWII and the Depression, and it stayed at 70% or higher until Reagan. During that 40-year span the economy boomed, the middle class rose and the gap between rich and poor shrank.Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16952618158664674100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6955569682734184307.post-18518221439218707152010-10-03T04:22:58.426-04:002010-10-03T04:22:58.426-04:00Whoa, baby! Seventy percent?
I'm thinking o...Whoa, baby! Seventy percent?<br /><br />I'm thinking of the small businesses. The "wealthy" owners of small businesses would presumably get the bejeepers taxed out of them, and wouldn't be able to expand or to hire, and the economy, I think, would suffer more than a trifle.<br /><br />Seventy? Really?<br /><br />*blinks in disbelief*<br /><br />Incidentally, I'm thinking that this kind of semi-socialism is what killed Dylan Thomas. Always struggling to pay Britain's taxman, he never could quite make ends meet, and turned to drink more and more ...Thomas Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13217297262702709978noreply@blogger.com