Oh, another thing. Your claim the economy was more stable is utter horseshit.
The United States suffered two severe recessions in the 50s. There was a recession every three years from 1949 to 1960.
The economy overall grew by 37% during the 1950s. At the end of the decade, the median American family had 30% more purchasing power than at the beginning.
That had nothing to do with our high tax rate, and everything to do with the fact we had become the world's only superpower while the rest of the world was in cinders.
And yet, the high tax rate allowed us to build the Interstate Highway system, which was one of the largest public spending projects in the country's history while putting people to work. The high tax rate brought in enough money to fund the GI Bill, which gave military veterans affordable access to a college education and added a productive pool of highly-educated employees to the work force at a time American businesses were willing to pay handsomely for engineering and management skills.
Again, there were a lot of tax expenditures which made the real tax rate lower for rich people.
The whole reason a tax rate has to be so high is to pay for all those tax expenditures.
See, what I have been saying for years, and what I have in common with Ted Cruz and Rand Paul, is that we can have a lower tax rate if we eliminate all those tax expenditures.
You are being robbed, and begging Sanders to steal even more from you!
Don't get me wrong. The Republican Party is far more guilty of this particular kind of theft. One more reason on the pile I am leaving the party.