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Past is Prologue: Talking Taxes

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The Unfair Taxation of White Americans

In the 1950s, we have this progressive income tax system. And there are some people that are objecting. But no one's really talking about it outside of those small boardrooms because I think people thought they were getting a good deal. That begins to shift a little bit in the 1970s for any number of economic and political reasons. So this unfair taxation thing is more of a feeling than it is a discrete formula.

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