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Originally Posted by tis
That's the problem. Everybody has a taker mentality. Our parent and grandparents were too proud to take a cent from the government and didn't need all the little extras that government provides today. I also can't imagine that there isn't going to be a credit card explosion in our future.
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It's a little more nuanced. The tax rate of the wealthy was significantly higher and there was a stronger sense of civic responsibility to share the costs of the war, or programs to benefit the middle class like the GI bill, and to pay for the interstate highway system. Because of this, or in spite of depending on your viewpoint, there was the biggest growth of the middle class in our country's history. Wage inequality shrank, wages went up, and the middle class grew.