http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2012010530/buffett-rule-historys-grand-sweep
"In 1952, millionaires — in today’s dollars — paid federal income tax at a 55.2 percent rate, show IRS historical data." "And those rich in 1952 were actually getting a good deal, compared to their counterparts ten years earlier. In 1942, the first full year of World War II, taxpayers who would be millionaires in today's dollars paid their federal income taxes at an overall effective rate that hit 68.9 percent." "Just a reminder: We won that World War II, and the economic boom during the war years would raise millions of Americans into the middle class."
"“We have K Street,” Buffett explained last week. “We have Wall Street. Debbie doesn’t have anybody. I want a government that is responsive to the people who got the short straw in life.” "So should we all."
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