The link that you just posted *does not* support your previous contention.
In fact it seems to refute it fairly conclusively.
Picking just a year at random from the tax tables for the nineteen fifties --- rates don't seem to have varied all that much during the decade... --- I see (for "head of household") that rates ran from 20% to 91% in a very smooth series of graduations: "20, 21, 24, 26, 30, 32, 36, 39, 42, 43, 47, 49, 52, 54, 58, 62, 66, 68, 71, 74, 76, 80, 83, 87, 90, 91".
Then, of course, you'll want to add in the State tax rates (from your other link)....
But it seems pretty conclusive already that the tax rates (and total load) were MUCH higher... (contrary to your assertions.) |
