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To: i-node who wrote (663285)7/21/2012 5:14:37 PM
From: Brumar891 Recommendation  Respond to of 1577933
 
There's a lot of innumeracy on the left .... recently bentway thought he'd scored an important point that the top 20% paid more income taxes than the top 1%.

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To: i-node who wrote (663285)7/21/2012 5:18:07 PM
From: steve harris2 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1577933
 
All I did was take the first few words of the article and run it through a search engine.

Just about every left wing blog came up, all of them having orgasms and high fives without checking any data readily available to anyone.

Look at the reaction here on SI. Chris posted the myth and it went viral again just as it did when Unger threw this turd the first time.