[CommieCutter]

Yeah when loopholes were abundant and those rates were never paid.

[ifinnegan]

And it was only paid on the bit of income over the threshold.

Crazy libs think “rich people” used to pay 90% of their income in taxes.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

Exactly. No one ever paid 90%.

There were loopholes, write offs, and all kinds of ways around those absurd tax rates. There was also income averaging and tax breaks galore.