The top 1% of individual income tax filers received double the income of the bottom 50%.

[Hannah Bell]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x64696


Merry Christmas to the 70 million making under $34K! (12% of total US income, effective average income tax rate = 13%)

Merry Christmas to the 1.4 million making over $458K! (23% of total US income, effective average income tax rate = 20%)

[TheKentuckian]

1. K&R

[The Magistrate]

2. Thank You, Ma'am: People Seriously Need To Comprehend These Disparities

"You can fool too many of the people too much of the time."

[enough]

3. Amen (nt)

[highplainsdem]

5. Yes, and we need our political leaders to both comprehend them AND talk about them.

And do something about them.

But the political leverage to do something about the disparities has to start with political leaders being brave enough to talk about what's wrong with these disparities.

[onethatcares]

4. but, but, but those 1.4 million

risked everything to make that type of cashola, they scrimped and saved,and did without and finally after all this time are getting their just rewards:wtf: :sarcasm:

[MichiganVote]

6. Sing it Sister. Cuz' our Prez in Hawaii ain't gettin' the message yet.

[indepat]

7. The RW's wet dream