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cthulu2016

(10,960 posts) Mon Feb 6, 2012, 01:23 AM Feb 2012

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Here’s what the IRS tells us about income shares at the top:

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/lies-damned-lies-and-politics/

http://www.irs.gov/taxstats/indtaxstats/article/0,,id=129270,00.html

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"This is what I mean when I say that the left and right aren’t symmetric. People of all persuasions Hissyspit Feb 2012 #1

Hissyspit

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1. "This is what I mean when I say that the left and right aren’t symmetric. People of all persuasions

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Mon Feb 6, 2012, 02:06 AM

Feb 2012

"This is what I mean when I say that the left and right aren’t symmetric. People of all persuasions lie; but the right has a whole institutional structure of lying that has no counterpart on the left."

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