High tax rates on corporations and the rich in the 1950's built the middle class and helped millions up out of poverty, just as the Scandinavian nations have done for 60 or 70 years.

  FDR warned that corporate takeover of government was the essence of fascism. Mahatma Gandhi said in the 40's that Western governments were diluted fascism.

  Republican Eisenhower built modern America with high tax rates. But he knew the forces of fascism were too powerful for progressive prosperity to last. When he left in 1960, he warned against the corporate backlash, saying, Beware of giving unwarranted power to the military-industrial complex.

  All the best ideals and admonishments of all the best statesmen were no match for the onslaught of global corporatism. Thus the world again slides down the muddy slope of economic fascism.