What Year Is This?  Paul Greenberg  8/9/2010 10:05:53 PM - Paul
Greenberg  The calendar says this is 2010 -- I just looked --
but there are times when current events feel more like an
historical re-enactment. It could be 1937 all over again:  A
president has been ushered into office on the wings of Hope and
Change after a sweeping electoral triumph, and the clouds have
started to lift.  Vast new programs, however debatable or
constitutional their merits, have been enacted.  An economic
recovery is under way, however slowly and tentatively.  And just
at this delicate moment, the president decides this would be the
perfect time to launch a rhetorical attack on big business, "the
rich," and capital in general. And not just a rhetorical attack.
His administration has fashioned a whole new web of taxes and
regulations to crack down on those evil plutocrats.  The
president was Franklin Roosevelt, and his ideas about how to rev
up the economy were embodied in the Revenue Act of 1935, aka the
Wealth Tax:  Increase th