Arthur Laffer has an interesting 22 September 2009 piece at the WSJ about gold, banks, tax matters and the depression. Here's a link: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203440104574402822202944230.html.
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The damage caused by high taxation during the Great Depression is the real lesson we should learn. A government simply cannot tax a country into prosperity.
If there were one warning I'd give to all who will listen, it is that U.S. federal and state tax policies are on an economic crash trajectory today just as they were in the 1930s.
Net legislated state-tax increases as a percentage of previous year tax receipts are at 3.1%, their highest level since 1991; the Bush tax cuts are set to expire in 2011; and additional taxes to pay for health-care and the proposed cap-and-trade scheme are on the horizon.
Oh-O.
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