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Re:Telegram Isn't for Sale by snowpanda on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @04:31AM (#15904164)
Not OP but he's right, your statement is slightly misleading, not many people actually paid that (fewer than 10,000 households[1]). A good source as you asked for can be found here:

[1] https://taxfoundation.org/taxes-rich-1950-not-high/

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Re:Telegram Isn't for Sale by aaronbrethorst on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @02:03PM (#15908398)
The Tax Foundation has been called a “deliberate fraud” by Nobel laureate Paul Krugman. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_Foundation)

Also, 10,000 households in the 1950s is roughly equivalent to the top 1% of the top 1%, and exactly who i’d expect to be taxed at a rate of 90%+.

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