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by lbrito 1543 days ago
This.

Brains here clearly in overdrive trying to elicit all the vaguely possible excuses and attenuations, everything but confronting the hard fact staring them in the face on a G-damn spreadsheet.

Folks, it doesn't get more straightforward than a spreadsheet. Income tax in the US was higher in the mid-1900s than it is today in Europe.