Oy! How embarassing. I checked before I posted and still Kirsten got there first. And now I'm a clutterer.
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, kirsten neilsen wrote:
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> doug - why did they use 1977? to get the results they wanted?]
But it wasn't entirely clutter -- at least my article has a plausible answer to this question:
Based on data from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, the
study estimates that average after-tax income for the top 1 percent of
households will climb in 1999 to $516,000 -- a real, after-inflation
gain of 115 percent since 1977, when CBO began compiling such figures.
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