Cool story bro! So you ACTUALLY think people were handing over 90% of their earnings back then? LOL.
[By the way, the price of an ounce of gold back then was $40. So a million bucks bought you 25,000 ounces. Those 25,000 ounces today are worth $82 million dollars. In other words, a million bucks back then equates to WAY more money today – something else I’m sure you’re unaware of.]
What the retarded socialist Clayton Tucker doesn’t understand (because he sucks at math AND history) is that his 90% number was the MARGINAL rate. There were a TON of loopholes and exemptions in the code back then. So the EFFECTIVE rate was more like 40% – which is pretty close to exactly where it is today.
Don’t get me wrong. I think 40% is still outrageous. If you make a million bucks in a year because you busted your ass running a small business that took you YEARS of hard work to build, and scumbags like Clayton Tucker come along and demand 40% of it because they are lazy slugs who want free shit, then those thieves deserve to be punched in the face repeatedly. Because that’s what they are: common thieves.
I’ll tell you what I DO know: I know that I hope you get 90% of your shitty goat herd eaten by coyotes this year so you can get a taste of the kind of rampant theft you want to perpetrate on everyone else, you envious little commie worm.