ocr: The fax: system was progressive in that those with largec incomes paid a higher percentage. At one point Roosevelt called for a 100 percent tax on incomes over $25,000. This politicalmaneuver was designed to appease the low-wage earner, whose income was faxed, ata rate of4to 6 pervent, for the first time ever, But Roosevelt did initiate a 91 percent tax on the highest incomes-which remained in place until 1964. Corporate opponents of the tax soon SAw. how much of the government's war revente was. being channeled back into their manufacturing coffers, and their own opposition soon died down,
