Eisenhower has one of the highest tax rates for the wealthy in U.S. history. The top rate on regular income was 91 percent. (Video via Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum & Boyhood Home)

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Sanders doesn't want it that high — though he says he wants it higher than 50 percent.

The current top rate under President Barack Obama is 39.6%. (Video via The White House)

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Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D. (center) is flanked by GOP whip Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo. (left) and Finance Committee Chairman Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, as Thune speak to reporters at the Capitol in Washington on Tuesday, July 1, 2025. Earlier Tuesday, the Senate passed the budget reconciliation package of President Donald Trump's signature bill of big tax breaks and spending cuts. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

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