So, I guess Eisenhower was a communist

[LuckyTheDog]

Today, I suggested to somebody that we should add a 40% marginal income tax rate for taxable income above $1 million, a 50% tax rate for taxable income above $10 million and a 75% rate for taxable income above $100 million.

I was told that such a thing would make the United States like "the former USSR."

The top marginal rate under Eisenhower was 91%. So, I guess Ike was an even bigger communist than me.


:banghead:

[leveymg]

1. That is exactly what the John Birch Society claimed. They said that about JFK, too.

Today's Teabaggers are 1950s Birchers, reborn. Very little has changed in their program. The young man's tee-shirt in the lower link says it all:



http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/.a/6a00d83451c45669e20120a5bf2abd970c-500wi

[The Magistrate]

2. Hell, Sir, 100% Of Income And Capital, Plus A Bullet Through The Brain, That Was the Old USSR....

Your friend is unclear on the concept; he thinks a hang-nail is a guillotine amputation at the elbow....

[drm604]

3. I'm guessing this is a younger person

who either wasn't alive during the existence of the USSR or is too young to remember it.

[abelenkpe]

4. I've spent time waxing on about Ike to my conservative relatives too

they hate it when I mention some of these fun facts found on the web:

"Dwight Eisenhower was the principal force behind the greatest single expansion of Social Security beneficiaries in the history of the program." http://www.eisenhowermemorial.org/social-security.htm

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. This is, I repeat, the best way of life to be found on the road the world has been taking. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron."
–Dwight David Eisenhower, “The Chance for Peace,” speech given to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, Apr. 16, 1953.

We pray that peoples of all faiths, all races, all nations, may have their great human needs satisfied; that those now denied opportunity shall come to enjoy it to the full; that all who yearn for freedom may experience its spiritual blessings; that those who have freedom will understand, also, its heavy responsibilities; that all who are insensitive to the needs of others will learn charity; that the scourges of poverty, disease and ignorance will be made to disappear from the earth, and that, in the goodness of time, all peoples will come to live together in a peace guaranteed by the binding force of mutual respect and love.
Military-Industrial Complex Speech, Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961

Dwight Eisenhower 74% approval rating. The president with the top marginal tax rate of 92 percent.

Dwight Eisenhower 74% approval rating. When Union membership was at it highest.




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[provis99]

5. well, Joe McCarthy called him a communist dupe.

so I'm not surprised by your acquaintance.