where the rich get richer...
Internal Revenue Service statistics as presented by Steve Brouwer in Robbing Us Blind: The Return of the Bush Gang and the Mugging of America, Common Courage Press, 2004
Redistribution of Income | 1970s | 2000s |
Richest 1% | 9.3% of all US income | 20.8% of all US income |
Bottom 90% (the rest of us) | 67% of all US income | 52% of all US income |