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Since we’re all in the throes of tax season (hey, that trillion dollar F-35 boondoggle isn’t going to pay for itself, ya know) I thought these graphics from Statista were pretty interesting. It’s hard to believe there was a time that the marginal income tax rate in the U.S. was 94%:
I just wanted to point out that in my post yesterday about the book I finished, The Wealth Hoarders, I made this observation:
Well, that didn’t take long………….within twelve hours of my post:
Still, I’m pretty content here in the United States, since I feel I’ve been able to express myself with almost total freedom (within the bounds of reason and decency).
Let us begin with a thesis: scarcity breeds excellence, and abundance produces garbage.
I am compelled, naturally, to write about this topic thanks to yet another multi-trillion dollar federal boondoggle, this one in the form of the “once in a generation opportunity to invest” announced by the President. Of course, this statement implies that the federal government has been cautiously and conservatively watching every penny for years and now, at long last, it will finally loosen the purse-strings and actually spend a bit on the country. This is, of course, patent nonsense, as the $28 trillion in debt incurred by countless years of government waste, quite plainly attests.
