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6. Before Ronnie Raygun, taxes, especially corporate taxes were up to 70% UNLESS, it was invested in

Reply to Martin Eden (Reply #4)

Fri Feb 20, 2026, 07:25 AM

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research and equipment. The period after WW 2 to Kennedy was also the time of our greatest prosperity. A house was in your reach as was a car and even a chicken in every pot.

Then came the need to pay for the Viet Nam war, followed by the greed to reduce the tax burden on the poor upper class.

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