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The Myth of High Tax Rates

The Democrats are hellbent on slapping the wealthy with outrageous tax rates–90 percent in some instances. The thought process is that a higher tax code will enrich government coffers, enabling it to deal with more pressing issues.

Not true! Just another myth, says economic historian Phillip Magness. While tax rates for the wealthy reached an unfathomable 90 percent during World War II and the Eisenhower Administration and remained as high as 70 percent before the Reagan Revolution, the plan just didn’t work.

“No one ever paid close to those rates,” says Magness, who’s researched tax codes for more than a decade. “A millionaire on average would pay 41 percent. There’s always deductions and exemptions and carve-outs that are baked into the tax code.” Magness and John Stossel debate the issue on this edition of Stossel on Reason.TV.

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Subverted

Here is a two-part video series called Subverted from Amazing Polly.

In part one, she notes: “The 1930s to the 1960s in America saw *massive* subversion of society, government & the military. There is a pattern, and there are linkages between people & events that very few people have ever heard of. This video is my attempt to shed light on the influence of a cult called Technocracy, Inc., The University in Exile, select US Military projects started at the declaration of WW2, the set-up of what is now the CIA, the Global Intelligence service (which they deny exists) and more…”

In part 2 of her video “Subverted,” Amazing Polly travels down some deep dives. The tentacles:
– 2 Mary Podestas
– adoptions / kidnappings / lebensborn
– Sky Island
– The Omnipotent Oom & a cult in Nyack, NY
– Vanderbilt, Harriman
– Sir Paul Dukes
– Eisenhower & Chuck Grassley (plus a Q/p0st)
– POTUS at the UN – the future does not belong to Globalism!

The Government Made You Fat

Ever since Big Brother began telling Americans what to eat, we’ve only gotten fatter and sicker. The problem traces back to the 1950s, when President Eisenhower was stricken with a heart attack while in office and heart health became a national obsession. That led to the introduction of government-approved nutritional guidelines called the Food Pyramid, which later evolved into My Plate. But were these guidelines really safe? Cardiologist Dr. Bret Scher offers some food for thought on this issue on PragerU.

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The Crimes of U.S. Presidents

While history will paint President Richard Nixon as our most notorious post-World War II commander in chief for his Watergate exploits, he wasn’t the only one cutting corners. Noam Chomsky, the father of modern linguistics and historical scholar,  elaborates on some of the little-known crimes of post-war presidents, from Eisenhower to Bush II.

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Communist Subversion of USA

American Betrayal is America’s lost history, a chronicle that pits Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight David Eisenhower, and other American icons who shielded overlapping Communist conspiracies against the investigators, politicians, defectors, and others (including Senator Joseph McCarthy) who tried to tell the American people the truth.

American Betrayal shatters the approved histories of an era that begins with FDR’s first inauguration, when “happy days” are supposed to be here again, and ends when we “win” the Cold War. It is here, amid the rubble, where Diana West focuses on the World War II–Cold War deal with the devil in which America surrendered her principles in exchange for a series of Big Lies whose preservation soon became the basis of our leaders’ own self-preservation. It was this moral surrender to deception and self-deception, West argues, that sent us down the long road to moral relativism, “political correctness,” and other cultural ills that have left us unable to ask the hard questions.

Diana West is a journalist and the author of The Death of the Grown-Up: How America’s Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization, American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character and The Rebuttal: Defending ‘American Betrayal’ from the Book-Burners. Here, she joins Stefan Molyneux for a fascinating discussion.

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