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Originally Posted by willravel
Christ, you're confrontational today. Just so you know, I'm in the top part of this little graph. I pull in about $125k per year, and my wife makes about $90k per year. We own a home in the SF Bay Area. Okay? So consider me neutral in all this before you go biting my head off. I'm trying to get all the information before I make a conclusion. That's something to be commended for. Pat me on the back. Do it. You know you want to.
How am I bent? The numbers Ustwo posted are misleading because the top 1% make sooooo much more than the rest of us. The numbers are taken out of context. My household makes a little over $200k, but the top 1% has people making $10,000,000 per year. That can't compare to people making $30,000. It takes over 300 people making $33,000 a year to match the income of one person who makes $10,000,000 per year.
I'm trying to understand the numbers in context.
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They're not misleading, anyone with half a brain understands that the top 1% make sooooo than the rest of us. Whats so misleading about that? I wasn't biting your head off, you seemed so happy to get the figures that showed the top 20% holding on to 5.3% more of their income, like it proved some sort of conspiracy, when all it showed was that they were overtaxed more than the rest of us. Its too bad you aren't bent on income redistribution. A new shiny boat would be nice.