We were in a much better fiscal state in 1950.
What with 90% tax brackets on the wealthy, current day righties would shit their pants in 1950.
My mom and dad paid taxes all their lives. Dad's income when I was in high school was $300 a month, teaching 8 hour days with coaching and Saturday meeting days thrown in to help ends meet. He had 5 kids, and he paid what was then considered peoples' "fair share". Life wasn't easy for him.
Today, we have an entitled generation who have to have partial assistance if they only make $1600 a month with no taxes whatever removed from their paychecks.
Some of them, too have to have part time jobs. They have 2.5 times as many cars as my family had, RVs, 3 or 4 television sets, computers, and software libraries coming out the wazoo.
The difference? Today's people don't save back for two or more cars, which are no longer considered luxuries but givens.
I think it's better when each person pulls his own weight.
This demand for job givers to give up their profits to investors by tapping the excesses to drain off into the federal government is a big mistake.
It puts too much power in too few hands who no longer feel any privilege about serving people.
I see wide-eyed, greedy Democrats screaming their heads off at Libertarians and Republicans.
And in return, they're taking home a bundle of tax-free income off the people, not to mention all that missing federal money that is easy to divert to huge expense accounts.