Alan: Fabulous fortunes are not about income but net worth. Even after paying their trivial income tax burden, The Top 1% remain unimaginably wealthy.
Conservatives fail to see this because they are blinded by belief in totally free markets, which are never truly free. And "if they were," plutocrats would only funnel resources to the top of pyramid faster than now.
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/06/net-worth-of-top-10-its-not-about.html
Conservatives fail to see this because they are blinded by belief in totally free markets, which are never truly free. And "if they were," plutocrats would only funnel resources to the top of pyramid faster than now.
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/06/net-worth-of-top-10-its-not-about.html
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Watch this "viral" video for perspective - http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/03/viral-video-shows-huge-gap-between.html
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"Politics and Economics: The 101 Courses You Wish You Had"
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Ronald Reagan’s Budget Director David Stockman on America's inconceivable wealth inequality - http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7009217n (This Stockman clip is contextualized at http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/11/02/915741/-The-top-five-percent-have-gained-more-wealth-than-the-whole-human-race-had-created-prior-to-1980)
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