Just as a point of reference and how things have changed over the years: in our Bulgarian folklore, people were complaining about the inhumane 10% tax.

Thankfully, Bulgaria now is back to this "inhumane" 10% flat-rate income tax, which you can reduce further to 9.5% if you file electronically.

Some good ideas here, for sure, but this 1954 article exhibits the tone of the modern melodramatic shrill blogger, who uses flowery metaphor in place of data.

This is garbage. The article is 62 years old - exactly how far along this "trend to Socialism" are we at this point?

Old doesn't always mean irrelevant...