Zandar's Thought Of The Day

I'm moderately impressed that despite Gallup's wording, taxing the rich is still evenly splitting the country like it has been for over a decade now.


 

Here's the real gobsmacker on this Gallup poll, however:




For 25 years now, a very healthy majority of Americans have pointed out the obvious here: wealth distribution in the country since the Reagan years has been terribly unfair. There's plenty of evidence to support that.



The wealthiest 10% of Americans control almost 75% of the country's net worth.  That was before the financial crisis.   By now, I'm expecting that number to be 75% or higher.  And keep in mind the Republicans are saying out economy is crumbling because this percentage isn't high enough, that we have to give more back to the "job creators" and cut taxes on the wealthiest Americans because they are suffering under too much of a burden.  These are the people suffering, supposedly:




It would be hysterical if it wasn't so pathetic.