No. What Brown and Jacoby won't tell you is that from 1954 to 1963, the top tax bracket was a stultifying 91%! The bottom rate was 20%. Even with a Republican in the White House from 1953 to 1961, and Republican control of Congress from … [Read more...]
Election 2008: Ronald Reagan vs. John F. Kennedy?
Disclosure: I voted for Obama in the primary and strongly prefer him as our next president over Clinton. I was not around to witness the Jack and Bobby era first-hand, but before this latest wave of JFK comparisons I felt that in Obama I … [Read more...]
JFK at 90
Crossposted at The Eisenthal Report.John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, would have been 90 years old today.The strength and dynamism of Kennedy's presence - and his promise - are evident more than four decades … [Read more...]
Speech therapy
So, Adam Reilly and Jon Keller both gave the "What Exactly Does That Mean?" treatment to Patrick's acceptance speech. Adam quotes a nearby eighth grade critic, clearly wise beyond her years: "Nice cliché"; Keller groans at Patrick's "vague … [Read more...]