Maybe. More likely is that Wise's correspondent hadn't the slightest idea what tax rates were in…

…ate taxes were much higher then, as a share of overall revenue and as a share of the larger economy. So to say that the nation needs to go back to the mid-to-late 1950s because that was a time of lower taxes makes no sense whatsoever. It suggests that there must be something other than the tax burden of that time which makes individuals like those in the Tea Party so wistful. Might that “something …ate taxes were much higher then, as a share of overall revenue and as a share of the larger economy. So to say that the nation needs to go back to the mid-to-late 1950s because that was a time of lower taxes makes no sense whatsoever. It suggests that there must be something other than the tax burden of that time which makes individuals like those in the Tea Party so wistful. Might that “something else” be related to the white-dominated racial hierarchy that existed during…
Sincere Thoughts About Dear White America: A Letter To a New Minority
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Maybe. More likely is that Wise's correspondent hadn't the slightest idea what tax rates were in 1957 & used that date as a shorthand.
Also a time when faces in government, corporate America, TV & film were reliably all white?
...Sure. That, too.
But I wouldn't rely on conservative understanding of history.
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