Always longing for the "quaint" days.
"In our quaint olden days (1940s through the 1970s) that progressive tax structure would, if in effect today, eliminate all this balderdash about deficits and allow government programs to maintain and improve infrastructure (which incidentally increases employment, money in the pockets of the 99%, and even more money in the bank accounts of the 1%.)"
Referring to those days and trying to equate prosperity to progressive taxation is a non sequitur.
For one thing, back in those "quaint" days, America had a near monopoly on practically everything, at least until the rest of the industrialized world got back on its feet after WWII. We no longer enjoy monopoly power over capital, labor, or even technology. We now need to compete with the rest of the world. Merely competing on how high taxation can be isn't going to work.
