[lbo-talk] Shut down the government? Seriously?

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Apr 8 20:40:32 PDT 2011


On Apr 8, 2011, at 10:39 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:


> Fuck him. The top 1% of the U.S. pop has something like $1.4 trillion in income. The next 4% has $1.3 trillion. The next 5% has almost a trillion. That's all out of almost $8 trillion. The U.S. isn't broke - the rich just have all the money.
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> This is ideal agitational conciseness.
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> You do mean annual inome -- not net worth or something.

Yes, annual income, from Piketty & Saez.

Doug



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