Technically correct, although dividends were excluded from the high income rate, so most ultra-wealthy just took much of their income in dividends instead. (Or pursued other means of tax avoidance[0], or tax evasion[1].)

[0]: i.e., legal

[1]: i.e., illegal

> income tax rates under Eisenhower were as high as 90 percent.

Climate change is not WWII.

You're right - the stakes are much higher with climate change.

Sure, but they are not imminent (what is the pearl harbor of climate change?). Further, climate change is highly politicized whereas WWII mobilized the entire country in purpose.

> what is the pearl harbor of climate change?

I'd say Katrina, Sandy, Irene, Maria, Camp, Woolsey, and Mendocino, but if you're not convinced already you'll never be.

Disclaimer: I'm apolitical because right/left is divide-and-conquer, divided-we-fall noise.

Climate change shouldn't be political or some far-off hypothetical.. no propaganda, rationalization or BS can deny the mountain of evidence that it's an immediate, existential threat that demands immediate, decisive action on the decatrillion-dollar moonshot scale (roughly the total, multi-decade cost of Iraq & Afghanistan).

No, it is actually much, much worse.

> income tax rates under Eisenhower were as high as 90 percent. > Climate change is not WWII.

The sentence you highlighted has nothing to do with WWII.

Eisenhower was president from 1953 to 1961.