{"id":1203146,"date":"2023-09-07T06:01:08","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T06:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=293495"},"modified":"2023-09-07T06:01:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T06:01:08","slug":"which-nation-has-taxed-the-rich-the-most","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/09\/07\/which-nation-has-taxed-the-rich-the-most\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Nation Has Taxed the Rich the Most?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eight decades ago, at a pivotal turning point in American history, our nation\u2019s richest faced a 94 percent federal tax rate on their income over $200,000, the equivalent of about $3.5 million today. At that point, near the end of World War II, only one other nation \u2014 the UK \u2014 taxed its rich at a steeper rate. The wealthiest Brits ended the war facing a 97.5 percent tax on their top-bracket income. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/09\/07\/which-nation-has-taxed-the-rich-the-most\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/09\/07\/which-nation-has-taxed-the-rich-the-most\/\">Which Nation Has Taxed the Rich the Most?<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight decades ago, at a pivotal turning point in American history, our nation\u2019s richest faced a 94 percent federal tax rate on their income over $200,000, the equivalent of about $3.5 million today. At that point, near the end of World War II, only one&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,1150,266],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203146"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1203146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1203215,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203146\/revisions\/1203215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1203146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1203146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1203146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}