Economic
Liberty Bonds introduced the idea of financial securities to most citizens and showed of patriotic duty to your country. Taxes also played a major role in funding for World War II. In 1940, a family of four needed close to $80,000 of income in today’s dollars before it paid any federal income taxes at all. By the end of the war, it saw its effective tax rate rise from 1.5% to 15.1%.
"Many thousands of patriotic men and women are toiling through the long hours of the day and night in the construction of the great fleets of vessels that carry the goods of victory to the distant battle fronts of the United Nations. Our ships, sailing every ocean, have been manned by courageous officers, all whom have left the security of their firesides and many whom have given their lives for the land of their allegiance." - FDR