Look up the tax code rates under Eisenhower. The US economy was in top form with lots of innovation and production. This is a republican propaganda for cutting taxes for the rich.
Eisenhower's tax rates are where Sanders gets his ideas about his proposals, although he has not committed on firm numbers as of yet. He has, however, stated his admiration for taxing the wealth at 90% as if anyone would stand there and get ass raped at 90%.
I mean, honestly, how stupid does someone have to be to think this American would remain a U.S. citizen after being robbed by the government? They would simply leave to some tax haven country, thus taking money that could be going into the US economy away to some foreign country.
Look no further than the two models in America as evidence. Businesses are fleeing places like California and New York and setting up shop in much more business friendly climates like Texas and Georgia. No one is just going to sit there and be extorted. So who here honestly thinks ANYONE would willingly allow to be taxed that?
It used to be that education was for you to improve yourself and learn to take an intelligent approach to life, not as a route to a job. This concept has been lost in the hype to get jobs so you can work 8 or 9 hours a day doing tasks for someone else.
If that were true, then no one would be admitted into college, rather they would just sit in on classes to soak up the knowledge. But as we all know, people go to college because it's a stepping stone and essentially training for potential jobs. That may be far less honorable in your mind, but it's nevertheless the reality.
"Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it" -- Thomas Paine