Shutting down the 'Kennedy would be a conservative' claims in 1 post

[Garion_55]

I see right wingers occasionally attempting to claim that Kennedy would have been a conservative based on the fact he wanted lower tax rates.

My response is always 'really? Find me a conservative who supports these tax rates…'


In January 1963, Kennedy presented Congress with a tax proposal that would reduce the top marginal tax rate from 91 percent to 65 percent, and lower the corporate tax rate from 52 percent to 47 percent



And I usually end with 'Hey if you guys want to support a 65% tax rate Bring it on!!!'

[ProfessorGAC]

1. Also, Closed LOTS of Loopholes

When those rates hit, a much higher % of taxpayers actually paid part of their income at the highest rate.
It definitely was not designed to REDUCE revenues, like the "drown it in a bathtub" morons want.

[rurallib]

2. Bingo!

[cinematicdiversions]

3. Nixon would be a liberal however.

Seriously Universal health care... Minimum income payments... he is to the left of any current Democratic administration.

[calimary]

4. Well worth remembering.

[patphil]

5. Biden's infrastructure bill raises the top rate to an astounding 28%!

If Kennedy was conservative at 65%, then Biden would have to be considered a super right wing lunatic at 28%.

But he's just trying to begin to fix what the real super right wing lunatics, Trump and McConnell, did to set the rate at 23% in December of 2017.

[BobTheSubgenius]

6. It's an absurd argument.

It's much more true that either Goldwater or Nixon would be primaried today for being too liberal. George Wallace would be welcomed with open arms by today's GOP.