Is lowering taxes the answer?

[Kulindahr]

Patriotic? Claims like that make me wonder how you'd be as a leader.

Yes, patriotic: after WWII that was the rate because good patriots understood that a nation in debt is a nation at risk. That was the rate under perhaps the last true Republican president, Eisenhower.

 

[evanrick]

shared sacrifice:
the wealthy share the public money with themselves by socializing debt and privatizing wealth

the effect is the public is sacrificed in the name of enriching the already wealthy