I wouldn’t want to “go back” to it. But we do know that the 90% tax on the wealthy is a viable plan to fund the social services and needs of the people. And we also know that it needs to happen.

Edit: I hope it’s clear I was not advocating for something or anything like a return to 1950’s values lol

Yes, of course there was systemic racism and women couldn’t even have personal checking accounts without approval from a male….

I’m just saying that unless taxes go up to 90% on folks making over a couple million dollars a year then we’ll never get there again.

The system was created and developed by rich folks to ensure that rich folks continued to accumulate more and more wealth. Economists seem to me to be just working backwards from that point without ever mentioning it.

We had a middle class when taxes on the wealthy were 50-90 percent. Unless we bring that back, the ‘economy’ is bullshit.

Referring to the USA of course.

But Venezuela’s economy collapse was caused mainly by US foreign policy. It may have been exacerbated by Maduro’s or Chavez’s policy, but the US was the cause.