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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (530307)	11/18/2009 1:49:51 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575423

"Right out of the Wiki. article" Yep. I read it. Thought it was a good point. It is, by the way. "Is the only information you have on this subject Wikipedia?" No. It is just a handy reference. I can point to plenty of other sources. "They were not, of course, "taxing at essentially 100%". People were able to subsist on their "earnings" and thus were not taxed at 100% or anything close to 100%. " Actually, they were taxed at essentially 100%. Citizens did not really have earnings. Their pay was not based on what they did, but on the size of their family, where they lived, etc.