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Message:: [QUOTE="V. Kurt Bellman, post: 1983768, member: 71723"]Can you POSSIBLY GET any more ignorant? Virtually nobody paid income taxes in the 1930's and the top total pay-in per year in the initial Social Security payroll tax was 10 bucks. (1% rate) Nothing about the Depression or its end had anything to do with tax rates. The average guy first started even being aware of income taxes during the postwar expansion. And yet, the newly felt income tax did not have a negative effect. By the way, at the end of WW2 our total sovereign debt was quite a few times  higher, as a percentage of GDP, than it is now. And we retired it totally in less than a longish generation. What's the difference now? Less shared sacrifice, more personal entitlement. The wealthy have lost any remnant of shame. My dad was an entrepreneur his entire life. His take on the fashionable name "Job Creators"? "I never created a [CT not allowed]ing job in my life. If it was up to me and I could have done it, I'd have done everything myself. My customers created those jobs, I didn't! You saw how many of them I kept on when business went south dint cha?"[/QUOTE]