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To: bentway who wrote (862316)	6/4/2015 1:19:28 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1577920

>> Not if you look at it as a percentage of their total income, Well, you have to understand something. YOU have been in the 1% and YOU didn't pay any. And in fact that is how most people get in the 1% -- they sell their homes in NYC or California and for one year they're in the 1%. And they don't pay taxes. If you're really talking about the 0.001% the near billionaires, that's a different thing. When you start getting into the 0.01% or 0.1%, you're dealing with working people. So, define the demographic and we can talk about it; the difference between the 1% (which includes crain operators at the Port of Long Beach) and the 0.001% is far more radical than the difference between the 1% and the 99%. Over half of American families will, at some point in their lives, be in the 1%. But most are in-and-out over a year or maybe two.