Yes, would you rather have a percapita income of $60,000. and a twelve dollar cup of coffee or the 1956 per capita average as it was in America and a five cent cup of coffee? I would guess that the latter was a better deal. I was born in 1944 in South Carolina, my father was a carpenter and we ate meat three times a day most of the time. At least no one who has ever seen me has suspected that I was ever undernourished. I think 1956 was the year that I saw the man I considered my Godfather become very angry because he was charged a whole dime for a cup of coffee instead of the nickel he was used to paying. He thought it was outrageous to be charged enough for a cup of coffee to pay for half a gallon of gasoline. In those days my father could afford to buy ice cream cones for himself, my mother and his four sons. The total cost was no more than sixty cents for all six and that was for double dip cones. Who can afford six cones of ice cream now? It would cost what my father spent in a month at the grocery store in 1956.
Thought, I am the first to say we are rapidly catching up and we have none of the up side. At least they feel like they get something for all that taxation--we just get to bend over.