Reply #9: Also, HOW did WW2 "end the Depression"?

[JHB]

Whenever someone blithely says WW2 "is what really" ended the Depression, remind them of exactly HOW it did so: unprecendented government spending, high marginal tax rates (80% and higher), full employment including over a million government jobs (actually more than full employment, which led to women getting jobs they'd been excluded from previously), limits on profits (i.e., anti-war profiteering measures), rationing of food, fuel, and other essentials, and so on.

NOT the sort of program conservatives are apt to advocate these days.