Has Anyone Ever Seen One Of These?

[Pale Rider]

The card is pretty much self explanitory. It was my grandfather's. I wondered if anyone here has ever seen one of these?

http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/790/war0010ar0.jpg

http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/2443/war0020rx5.jpg

Just think of it... if people had to do this today. Think how rabid the left is about the war now. Think about what they'd be like if they had to go through times like the above.

Hell... there isn't a one of 'em with enough guts or spine.

[Dilloduck]

The card is pretty much self explanitory. It was my grandfather's. I wondered if anyone here has ever seen one of these?

http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/790/war0010ar0.jpg

http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/2443/war0020rx5.jpg

Just think of it... if people had to do this today. Think how rabid the left is about the war now. Think about what they'd be like if they had to go through times like the above.

Hell... there isn't a one of 'em with enough guts or spine.



I've got my grandfathers too---amazing things.

[shattered]

Have a couple of those. It's amazing what you find when you clean out a 2-3 generation house where the occupants saved *everything*, "just in case"...

[Pale Rider]

Can you imagine people having to do that today?

[Rahul]

Can you imagine people having to do that today?

I could not imagine you having to do that and being able to do it, no. :D

[Pale Rider]

I could not imagine you having to do that and being able to do it, no. :D

I don't believe you've ever had to do this in India anyway... :dunno:

[Rahul]

I don't believe you've ever had to do this in India anyway... :dunno:

So, perhaps you could enlighten us on how the troops there used to get their rations. :D

[Pale Rider]

So, perhaps you could enlighten us on how the troops there used to get their rations. :D

I don't have to "enlighten" anyone, especially you. America has saved the world twice over. Think about that.

[Rahul]

I don't have to "enlighten" anyone, especially you.

Perhaps you should stop making obtuse statements then and concentrate on the topic at hand.

So, can you imagine people having to do that today?

[manu1959]

So, perhaps you could enlighten us on how the troops there used to get their rations. :D

those books were for the general population....everything was rationed....

[mrg666]

http://www.scvs.com/stamp/exhib/ration/index.htm

my gran saved her uk books but unfortunately along the line they vanished

[Joan]

I do remember my parents having to use these books! Guess I'm really giving away my age now!!

[shattered]

I just found an original income tax bill from 1920-1921.. Woo. I think the income was something like $1000 for the year.. (blacksmith)

[Rahul]

those books were for the general population....everything was rationed....

Well, that happens in EVERY country, hence my question . . .

[Pale Rider]

I just found an original income tax bill from 1920-1921.. Woo. I think the income was something like $1000 for the year.. (blacksmith)

I wonder what the percentage was... ?

[Jon]

I wonder what the percentage was... ?

This should give you an idea:


...World War I and the 1920's

The entry of the United States into World War I greatly increased the need for revenue and Congress responded by passing the 1916 Revenue Act. The 1916 Act raised the lowest tax rate from 1 percent to 2 percent and raised the top rate to 15 percent on taxpayers with incomes in excess of $1.5 million. The 1916 Act also imposed taxes on estates and excess business profits.

Driven by the war and largely funded by the new income tax, by 1917 the Federal budget was almost equal to the total budget for all the years between 1791 and 1916. Needing still more tax revenue, the War Revenue Act of 1917 lowered exemptions and greatly increased tax rates. In 1916, a taxpayer needed $1.5 million in taxable income to face a 15 percent rate. By 1917 a taxpayer with only $40,000 faced a 16 percent rate and the individual with $1.5 million faced a tax rate of 67 percent.

Another revenue act was passed in 1918, which hiked tax rates once again, this time raising the bottom rate to 6 percent and the top rate to 77 percent. These changes increased revenue from $761 million in 1916 to $3.6 billion in 1918, which represented about 25 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Even in 1918, however, only 5 percent of the population paid income taxes and yet the income tax funded one-third of the cost of the war.

The economy boomed during the 1920s and increasing revenues from the income tax followed. This allowed Congress to cut taxes five times, ultimately returning the bottom tax rate to 1 percent and the top rate down to 25 percent and reducing the Federal tax burden as a share of GDP to 13 percent. As tax rates and tax collections declined, the economy was strengthened further...

[Jon]

Actually, it looks like someone that made $1K in 1920 owed 4% in taxes (scroll down):

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http://www.taxfoundation.org/files/federalindividualratehistory-20070227.swf