| >I seriously recommend cracking open a history book It wouldn't contradict me. From what I can surmise from your illustrious prose you... didnt either? >But a good hallmark of the envy-based religion It is odd that you are seemingly assigning an envy based religious motivation to American post war economic policy (e.g. 98% income tax rates). >Like 10 families paid those rates Hence my use of the term "ceilinged" - an indulgent metaphor that I would hope an erudite student of history would interpret as "that which one can not go above". >Absolutely. And when the politics of envy ....post war economic policy? >leads to bad outcomes Like... the creation of the middle class? Exceptional growth? What were the Bad Outcomes of the 1950s with its 98% income tax rates you are warning us of? Help me understand. I guess what you're saying is that this "politics of envy" risks destroying that which is not only benign, but necessary? |