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Steven Gaal Posted September 27, 2010 Author Share Posted September 27, 2010 (edited) related What if growth had been equal? 2010-09-13, Washington Post Posted: 2010-09-20 10:08:02 http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/09/what_if_growth_had_been_e... "The Conehead economy" [is] the idea that if the economy were a person, its growth over the past few decades would've turned it from a normal-looking individual into a conehead. Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson get at this idea slightly differently [in their book Winner-Take-All Politics]. They've got a table showing how incomes would look if growth had been equally shared from 1979 to 2006 -- much as it was in the decades before 1979. If growth had been equally shared, the middle quintile would be making $64,395 today. Instead, they're making $52,100. That's a 23 percent raise those folks didn't get -- and that I'm sure they would've noticed. The top 1 percent ... made, on average, $1,200,300 in 2006. If growth had been equally shared in the three decades before that, however, their incomes would've been cut by more than half, down to $506,002. That's real, serious money we're talking about. The top 1 percent now accounts for 23.5 percent of the national income if you include capital gains. In 1979, they only had 9.8 percent of the nation's earnings. During that same period, tax rates on the richest Americans have actually dropped. So as the economy went one way -- toward more money going to the rich -- the tax system went the other. Note: For lots more on income inequality from reliable sources, click here. http://www.wanttoknow.info/incomeinequalitynewsarticles Edited September 27, 2010 by Steven Gaal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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