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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (330139)	12/18/2002 8:55:35 AM
From: willcousa	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I don't buy that whatever data exists has to understate the case. I think there is a bias to overstate the case as those who care about the data have a political agenda. In depth outside studies of the IRS data have found quite unexpected twists when going behind the raw data. One of these is that the group named as the rich, the upper quartile of the data, changes dramatically in composition each year and so does the bottom quartile. It will take a much different kind of study to produce any meaningful data on the entire subject. So Kevin Phillips book is anchored in shifting sand.