{"id":735,"date":"2008-10-19T09:07:38","date_gmt":"2008-10-19T16:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=735"},"modified":"2008-10-22T19:47:28","modified_gmt":"2008-10-23T02:47:28","slug":"some-data-to-support-the-concentration-of-wealth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2008\/10\/19\/some-data-to-support-the-concentration-of-wealth\/","title":{"rendered":"Some data to support the concentration of wealth"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I’ve been writing about the concentration of wealth in the United States here<\/a> and here<\/a> for example; now the New York Times has provided a series of graphs on the US economy since Harry Truman’s Presidency<\/a> that shows this trend:<\/p>\n

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So why would we continue a tax policy that places more and more of the burden of supporting the US government upon those that can least afford it, those that we now need to kick-start the consuming part of our economy, and those that get the least out of the performance of our government?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I’ve been writing about the concentration of wealth in the United States here and here for example; now the New York Times has provided a series of graphs on the US economy since Harry Truman’s Presidency that shows this trend: So why would we continue a tax policy that places more and more of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[301,99,344],"class_list":["post-735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-finance","tag-new-york-times","tag-wealth"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t