I think I might order a beverage and then take a couple of hours to drink it....if they said anything I'd tell them I had my stomach stapled with my ObamaCare and I can't drink much at a time.

Maybe I could also put a baggie with my dog's poo in my purse....that should leave the tables around me "open". Do you really think they would tell me I have to leave because I stink?!?!? LOL, LOL, LOL That's when I'd claim to be a DUMBocRAT ! LOL.

I think I might order a beverage and then take a couple of hours to drink it....if they said anything I'd tell them I had my stomach stapled with my ObamaCare and I can't drink much at a time.

Maybe I could also put a baggie with my dog's poo in my purse....that should leave the tables around me "open". Do you really think they would tell me I have to leave because I stink?!?!? LOL, LOL, LOL That's when I'd claim to be a DUMBocRAT ! LOL.

Movement conservatism began reeling the nation in dragging it back in time to a new gilded age of inequality and prejudice in the 1970's and here we are with a hollowed out middleclass as a result. For 40 years progressive policies lifted people out of poverty and into the middle class. In FDRs inaugural address in 1937 the one where he spoke of one third of the nation still in poverty there was little evidence the wealthy had any less dominant position than they had before WW-l But a mere decade later the rich had clearly been demoted. It was not by accident nor did it happen gradually it happened quite suddenly.

This sudden decline in the fortunes of the wealthy can be explained in large part with just one word; taxes Where todays wealthy receive much of their income from employment (think CEOS and their stock options grants) in the twenties matters were simpler; The rich were rich because of the return on the capital they owned. In 1929 70 % of stock dividends went to only 1 percent of Americans so the division of national income was the difference between wages and return on capital. So you might think the sharp fall in the share of the wealthy in American national income must have reflected a big shift in the distribution of income away from capital and toward labor; but it turns out that this didn’t happen In 1955 labor received 69 percent of the pre tax income vs 31 percent for capital little difference from the 67-33 split in 1929.
The division of after tax income changed radically .

In the twenties taxes had been a minor factor for the rich. The top rate was only 24 % and because the inheritance tax was only 20 % wealthy dynasties had little difficulty maintaining themselves but with the coming of the new deal the rich began to face taxes that were not only vastly higher than those of the twenties but high by today’s standards. The top rate rose to 63 % during FDRs first term 79 % in his second and during the cold war of the 50’s to 91 %. The average tax on corporate profits rose to more than 45 % by 1955. The top inheritance tax rose from 20 % to 45-60-70 and finally 77 % . While the rich were the biggest victims of the great compression, blue collar workers were the biggest beneficiaries. By 1955, those numbers remained essentially the same at sixty-nine percent for labor and thirty-one percent for capital. Interestingly the economy did not collapse, and the wealthy did not substantially change their investing habits.