drz-400
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Cheaper than hiring cops and building prisons to keep hungry people from killing you for a loaf of bread. And we spend more on optional wars and military spending and the court systems to increase and protect the assets of the wealthy.
I acknowledge that these may benefit the wealthy more, but they also benefit everyone else.
You want me to feel sorry for those making more than $250,000 when one in seven Americans are poor????
No, didn't want to imply that at all. I was simply pointing out that the "top bracket" that has received the tax cuts you loathe contains many who a part of the middle class, whom you are so vigorously saying is HURT by these policies.
I've provided two sources to your none
Your sources have yet to show me anything but the distribution of income. Based on your sources I can tell NOTHING about the standard of living of ANYONE.
Here is a source, I am assuming you have MS Excel:
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/income/data/historical/inequality/H01AR_2009.xls
Using US census data and according to my calcs the lowest 20% (the underclass) has had its income grow by $113 per year on average (real 2009 dollars) from 1980 to 2009.
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