While it’s true that the maximum tax rates in Eisenhower’s time were much higher compared with our own, they also only phased in at almost 10X more income - to

While it’s true that the maximum tax rates in Eisenhower’s time were much higher compared with our own, they also only phased in at almost 10X more income - to hit the max tax bracket back then you needed to have an inflation adjusted income of over four million a year versus the $518,401 for today. Moreover, such taxes seem terribly unfair for a person who works hard to get a single payout one time, versus a steady high income for many years - someone who makes ten million one time and then nothing else for nine years gets FAR more taken from them that a person who earns a million a year for ten years, despite the same total earnings. Why should the first person have to pay so much more than the second?