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Bernie Sanders Less Of A Socialist Than Dwight Eisenhower

The moderator kept pressing him on raising rates on the wealthy. That is the shoe that I have been dying to have drop from Senator Sanders, but he was still not forthcoming. He did got a good laugh though when he said that he would not go as high as 90%, the top rate during the Eisenhower Administration, because he is not as much of a socialist as Dwight Eisenhower. O’Malley chimed in that it was 70% in the early part of the Reagan administration

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Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one’s affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich or poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands: taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions. To demand more in the name of morals is mere cant.