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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My parents were greatest generation. My dad graduated high school, was a Marine in WWII, came home and did a few semesters of college. He was a salesman, then a cost accountant. My folks bought a 3/2 ranch home, and added a pool. This is on a the salaries of my dad and my mom, who worked in a department stores sales clerk.

The also put me through college on that salary.

The 1 percenters have wrecked the economy. Not the immigrants. America is built on Immersive. It is the grifters like Trump and Musk who are bankrupting the US.

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Musk founded a major multi-billion dollar company that employs thousands of people and makes one of the first new cars on the road since the Big-3 domination. That sounds like very aspirational American to me! 
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Stipulating that what you said is true, how much less motivated would he have been if the top tax rate on capital gains were say, 50%, instead of 15%? I'd say not at all. [/quote]

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