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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sully- who wrote (54335)	1/13/2007 5:38:15 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

A truly courageous (willing to be fired) ombudsman of The New York Times would insist on the following correction to Andrews' upside-down article: "Households earning more than $266,800 a year saw their federal tax rates drop less sharply than any other group in the country as a result of President Bush's tax cuts, according to a new Congressional Budget Office study." If this is really true, and I doubt anything coming out of Townhall is true, then cry me a river! The truth of the matter is that the rich are getting richer at the expense of the lower classes. Not only is it disgusting, its unAmerican. Here's a sampling of income gains by class for the years from 1970 to 2000; the rich in the country have become piglets.....and not without the hard work of the GOP making it happen: "From 1970 to 2000, the lowest quintile saw an increase of $1100, or 8%. The next lowest quintile saw an increase of $3900, or 13%. The middle quintile saw an increase of $5,900, or 15%. The second highest quintile saw an increase of $12,700, or 25%. The highest quintile saw an increase of $48,800, or 54%. It sure looks to me like that highest quintile is kicking the piss out of the lower quintiles but then that's just me." dev.siliconinvestor.com