Rubbish. This is the usual “trickle down” nonsense of the Right. During that most “capitalist” golden era of the 50s and 60s, the income tax rate for the highest earners was in the vicinity of 90 percent, and the gap between richest and poorest was far smaller than today. Why? It was the liberal policies of the Roosevelt-Truman-Eisenhower-Kennedy era vs. the policies instituted by Reagan on behalf of the super-rich…