The "tragic" story of the very very rich, continued? 2007

My uncle Larry pointed me to this Kevin Drum column about wealth and tax rates from the Washington Post from April 2005. In it he presents the figures to show that "Their incomes have tripled in the past couple of decades and at the same time their tax rates have decreased by 9 percentage points. That's a pretty sweet deal in anybody's book."

Anyone seen any more updated figures? I can't imagine it's gotten any more fair (by which I mean fairer to society as a whole instead of the current bias toward the fattest of fat cats) since then.

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The "tragic" story of the very very rich, continued?

My uncle Larry pointed me to this Kevin Drum column about wealth and tax rates from the Washington Post from April 2005. In it he presents the figures to show that "Their incomes have tripled in the past couple of decades and at the same time their tax rates have decreased by 9 percentage points. That's a pretty sweet deal in anybody's book."

Anyone seen any more updated figures? I can't imagine it's gotten any more fair (by which I mean fairer to society as a whole instead of the current bias toward the fattest of fat cats) since then.

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