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Could it have something to do with the recent affection of hedge-fund managers for the Democratic Party?
  • at last! an ex-Clinton official who isn't a %#@in' @!#$@...

    "You say the rich will leave the country rather than face a marginal tax of 50 percent? Let them, and take away their citizenship."

    Yeah! (As I recall we had a 50 percent top marginal tax rate throughout most of the 60s and 70s, and apart from the Vietnam debacle we paid our way and still had a manufacturing base. What do we have now?)

    Reich stands taller than any other ex-Clinton official in my book. Thank you Rober Reich, and thank you Salon for publishing this.