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To: Born In America

Neither the crash nor the depression were due to undistributed wealth.

The crash was caused (as far as I can tell) by buying on massively leveraged debt. The recession that followed was turned into the great Depression by the genius of government intervention. The Smoot-Hawley tariff - a protectionist scheme - prevented natural recovery after the crash.


8 posted on 05/14/2008 10:50:23 AM PDT by agere_contra
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To: agere_contra

Look at top marginal tax rates for the period....almost 100% for anything over 100,000.

Better to sit and do nothing rather than be an entrepeneur and try to make money for yourself , or to create jobs for other people.


25 posted on 05/14/2008 3:05:25 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (TAZ:Untamed, Unpredictable, Uninhibited.)
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