@mh @greyknight33 @furgar Well... salaries have outpaced inflation in the top class of earners. Even Horowitz was complaining that these salaries are out of control. 1950's tax rates disincentivized massive pay disparities. The mechanism worked and redistributed wealth pretty well and this socialist utopia isn't acknowledged enough. I'd still ban federal tax if I could. However, Civilization does depend on some mechanism to redistribute wealth and provide a means to become wealthy.