Democratic presidential candidate and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., greets supporters at a town meeting in Portsmouth, N.H., on May 27. (Win McNamee, Getty Images)
Re: “Bernie Sanders’ history of odd views,” May 29 editorial.
A Post editorial warns voters to be concerned because Bernie Sanders said he was amenable to a marginal income tax rate of 90 percent, calling that an “anti-growth” proposal. Perhaps one has to be old like me (or Sanders) to remember that the top marginal federal income tax rate was once above 90 percent, and economic growth was just fine. For the period 1950-63, the top marginal rate was either 91 percent or 92 percent, and the average GDP growth rate over those 14 years was 4.1 percent, better than the average for any tax rate since.
Gary Waldman, Aurora
This letter was published in the June 2 edition.
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