Well, we'd reintroduce massive tax loopholes that allow for real tax rates to be less than they currently are - that's how we'd get back to that, because that's what we had then. We'd also cut payroll taxes back to 3% and have them apply to the first 30,000 instead of over 6% and applying to the first 106k of income.

We'd also raise taxes on the poorest quintile - you know, the people that currently don't pay any, and repeal medicare taxes.

That'd pretty much get us back to post ww2 taxes.

Given inflation, it seems like payroll taxes have fallen. 30k is (per https://www.dollartimes.com/inflation/inflation.php?amount=3...) $397,964.84 dollars.

I'd suggest looking at the following for a reasonably good look on the progressive tax rate, historically.

http://www.teachinghistory.org/history-content/ask-a-histori...