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A priceless moment in a Sanders versus Clinton debate last year![embedded content]In reality of course, Bernie is just an honest New Dealer who wants a Western European social democracy.And as for the top US federal marginal tax rates under Eisenhower, we can see them in the graph below. This graph shows the top US federal marginal tax rates on (1) earned income (in red) and (2) (where it diverges from the latter) ordinary income (in blue), from the the data here. And yet even with rates...

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