Was Eisenhower a socialist?
Under Eisenhower the richest Americans had to pay 91% of their income in taxes.
"Currently, the top marginal tax rate is 38.6 percent, scheduled to drop to 35 percent by 2006. The dramatic capacity of elites to take care of themselves is etched in the changes they have secured over the past half-century. The top marginal rate was 91. percent to and through the Eisenhower years, indeed continuing up to 1964"
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Republicans were descent honest caring people back then . That started to change dramatically with Nixon
I would assume that the post WW II debt was huge. I would also imagine that returning vets needed much help. If not physical, then with restarting their lives. Factories had to be retooled.
I was a child when he was president. It was Eisenhower that put "under God" in our Pledge of Allegiance because of the cold war and our desire to show our disgust for Communism.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?story...
Johnson started the "Great Society" in 1964. He forgot all the baby boomers would get old when his administration started Medicare and couldn't know they would have fewer children. He did cut taxes because the economy was growing.
Under the current GOP platform of increasing the divide of the upper and middle classes, yes, Eisenhower would fall into the "socialist" category.
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/13/even-m...
Nope.
There were tons of deductions in those days, and different definitions of income. People seldom paid anything near the full amount.
I'm all for shaking down the rich. Let's start with the Kennedy family, then move on to Pelosi, Gore, Kerry and work our way down to the Food Stamp user level until we're all equal.
The problem with Socialism is that sooner or later you run out of somebody elses money...
Yes he was. He also increased the governments intervention in Medicine, a trend that every president after him has continued. So much for that "change" Obama. Now do you realize that America has been going down a Socialist path for almost 100 years now and that Obama is just continuing that trend? That is why the rich stay rich and powerful and the poor stay poor.
Socialism is government ownership of means of production. Is there any evidence that Eisenhower was in favor of that?
No. That's just how bad of whiners modern conservatives have become.
The facts don't matter because Obama is a MUSLIM!