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Re:People Don’t Actually Want Equality, They Want Fairness by ztjio on Sunday September 10, 2017 @12:29PM (#15212896)
In the US it went up to 90% in the early part of that timeframe.
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Re:People Don’t Actually Want Equality, They Want Fairness by AnthonyMouse on Sunday September 10, 2017 @01:26PM (#15213210)
It's important to realize that nobody really paid those rates in the US. At the time the rules for what could be claimed as a deduction were so lax that people were making $80,000 or more in deductions against $100,000 in income.
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Re:People Don’t Actually Want Equality, They Want Fairness by retox on Monday September 11, 2017 @07:47AM (#15217761)
I've heard this argument a lot, does anyone have any good sources to confirm it?
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