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sinkingfeeling

(51,438 posts) Tue Sep 26, 2017, 08:16 PM Sep 2017

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A Big Thank You, America! From The Super Rich

https://www.dcreport.org/2017/09/26/a-big-thank-you-america-from-the-super-rich/

By David Vey Johnston,
DCReport Editor in Chief

Congress is about to take up Donald Trump’s desire for people like himself to get income-tax-rate cuts. So, what’s the long-term trend in tax-rate cuts? And how has the vast majority fared compared with the richest?

Take a seat. The numbers may knock the breath out of you when you read what 52 years have done to the incomes and tax burdens of the vast majority and those at the apex of the economy.

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A Big Thank You, America! From The Super Rich (Original Post) sinkingfeeling Sep 2017 OP

Don't forget: Ronnie Raygun began taxing Social Security LongTomH Sep 2017 #1

LongTomH

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1. Don't forget: Ronnie Raygun began taxing Social Security

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Tue Sep 26, 2017, 08:32 PM

Sep 2017

..........and he robbed the Social Security trust fund.

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