re: #123 lawhawk

Taxpayers would disagree with that statement since their personal finances can’t continue to function if governments at every level keep taking an ever greater bit of their income.

So explain to me how our nation managed to become the single most powerful nation on earth with a top-bracket tax rate of 70% or higher up until the 1980’s? Am I missing something here? Were we not the greatest nation on earth from WWII onwards, despite the top tax bracket being twice what it is now?