Republicans Love the 50's..They could embrace ONE aspect, and "save" us.

[SoCalDem]

Put back the tax structure that was in place then, and the middle class would ALL switch sides..:)

Back then a single income supported a family,because corporations and rich people paid a LARGER share of their income in the form of taxes.

The New Deal was still rather "new" and taxation was way more progressive..

The thing that always tickles me a bit, if when republicans long for the good ole days, they always "forget" that those were the days when they paid more taxes too :)

[bluestateguy]

1. And unions were strong back then too.

[tk2kewl]

2. and corporations provided retirement pensions

[SoCalDem]

4. Republicans just don't get it... "Jenga" politics have consequences

:)

[JDPriestly]

3. Brilliant!

Good point!

[MemphisTiger]

5. The ones that I know that long for the 50's like it because

it was a time when women and colored people knew their place. Their words not mine. I think it all comes down to economic class and a feeling of being elite over another group.

[SoCalDem]

6. Those are the real reasons they long for the "good ole days", but

of course they will never admit it..and most of the powerful republicans today were children or teens in the 50's, so they have an even more "skewed" view of the era.. They were the beneficiaries of the "good life"...and saw little on the injustices of the era

[SteppingRazor]

7. One problem here

Simple laws of supply and demand. In the 1950s, there were few women in the work place. This meant there were far fewer workers, thus higher demand, and better wages. When women entered the workforce, it doubled the amount of workers, forever altering the worth of the American worker.

Now, I'm certainly not saying that women entering the workforce is a bad thing. Far from it. I'm just pointing out that real wages in the 1950s were caused by many factors, not all of them things that we would like to dwell on too much.

[SoCalDem]

8. Taxes ..not workers... bring back 1950's tax structure

That migth just do it :)

[BlueIris]

9. So true.

I've been saying this for months.