Why You Should Be Screaming for Higher Taxes

By Larry Beinhart, AlterNet
Posted on January 12, 2009, Printed on January 12, 2009
http://www.alternet.org/story/119048/

US economic growth has been strongest when our taxes have been high. During World War II, then under Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy, our upper marginal tax rates were between 88-92%. Read those numbers again. They are astonishingly high. Those were our strongest growth years.

I never expected to say this. Pelosi's right, Obama's wrong.

Do keep in mind that we are talking about higher taxes on the richest members of society, the very richest. So, unless you're among that elite group, don't panic for personal reasons.