The original 1913 income tax was 1% for people with incomes above $3,000 (about $80,000 today) and 6% on $500,000 or more ($13 million). About 3% of the population was taxed. Just keep that in mind when Democrats lie and say the wealth tax will remain targeted at just the top.

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If your society is so lame that all it takes is for a couple commies to voice their retarded opinions to topple it, your society is already shit. Hate to break it to you.

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My society good, your society lame. That sounds incredibly naive and childish to me.

Can you name me a current society or country where all your wishes to free speech and so on apply?

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The United States except for the communists trying to stop it.

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You mean the

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