Out of the Blue

[Nov 06, 2012, 10:48 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

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Re: Out of the Blue

Nov 7, 2012, 08:54

Beamer

If you discount home ownership and look at other wealth (liquid capital, stocks, bonds, etc.), the top 20% of Americans actually have over 95% of the wealth in America.

So yes, they pay 80% of taxes. They hold 95% of non-home-ownership wealth.

We were skewed like this in the 1920s. New tax policies changed that, and through the early 70s the middle class became very popular, suburbs boomed, etc. Then it changed. Gee, I wonder why. Wait, here's the answer: Wealth inequality in America in the 1900s. Note that it goes exactly with our top marginal tax rate.

People can talk about job creators working hard to earn all this, but the bottom line is that, when you look at it, our entire country was strongest when our middle class was strongest (as the average buying power and therefore consumption was the highest), and this occured when the top marginal tax rates were quite high. Marginal being the key term here.




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