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Down the economy. we know at times we have high taxes on the wealthy under eisenhower, when the top marginal rate was 91%, the wealthy were still paying over 50% of their income at the top, top levels in taxes. the american economy grew v fast. you can't assume. there is no evidence that high taxes on the wealthy means slower growth. >> well, there is that argument and often times people will bring it up and people will say, we never had a tax rate that's high. from 1951 to 1963, the top rate was greater than 90%. yes, there were loopholes and not everybody paid that much money. the tax rate f...

Together in 1956 in response to this and rejected different possible, different ways to resolve this. the eisenhower eisen however adn wasn't thrilled with what was done, but was more concerned with the tainted british colonialism and somehow thought there would be a backlash against us. the israelis saw nasser as a great threat to him. he was acquired more and more arms from the soviet union. they couldn't get more arms from us. the eisenhower approach to israel is that it should rely on the goodwill and the international community and not get arms. and the israelis felt when they had this op...

I'm not even going to get into this. i'm sure you understand what i'm talking about. finally, what malcolm gladwell calls the teacher quarterback problem. in short, it's very difficult to tell a good teacher from a bad teacher until they are actually in the game. and so until you get more people through the room and see who is good at teaching kids, it's very difficult to reward and create teachers. conversely, it may actually be time for some of our old teachers to hit the showers. what's clear, however you look at this, is that much like with our power grid or our deficit or some of the othe...

Why doesn't he want allies going to singapore? he's making enemies. >> several things jump out at me. a reminder, what a lousy negotiator donald trump is despite the image, the fact that he would give up something this valuableable to vladimir putin and getting nothing in return, that he would give it to him for free. the second thing is just the hubris of all of this with all the questions about his ties to putin, all of the questions about whether he's beholden to russia, the fact that he would sort of go out there and say you know what, i don't care what anybody says, i'm going to destabili...