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To: Fiscally Conservative who wrote (145306)	1/10/2019 9:08:25 PM
From: TobagoJack	1 Recommendation Recommended By marcher Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217662

re <<I truly wonder how accurate that is. Far too many, seemingly so, make too little>> the data seems valid, and triangulates well if so, the question re trump supporters remains open - which income classes accounts for 80% of his support base? en.wikipedia.org

To: Fiscally Conservative who wrote (145306)	1/10/2019 9:09:17 PM
From: TobagoJack	1 Recommendation Recommended By marcher Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217662

some say below ... washingtonpost.com

To: Fiscally Conservative who wrote (145306)	1/11/2019 9:47:56 AM
From: Horgad	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217662

They pulled the data straight from Social Security taxable wages data...so it shows something for sure, but its a bit skewed on what it actually shows because of the nature of the data. For example on high end, it doesn't include non wage data which is a big part of the wealth disparity. And on the low end, it includes lots of people who work part time as a supplement and not as a main source of income. ssa.gov Anyhow, I took a look and for fun pulled out a couple of tidbits... In 2008, 155,435,000 reported taxable wages in the US. In 2017, 165,438,000 reported taxable wages in the US. For a gain of 6.4%. reporting taxable wages. Over that same time period, population of the US increased from 303,202,683 to 325,720,000. For a gain of 7.4% people. So population increased faster than those reporting taxable wages, but not dramatically...likely due to the aging population plus the housing crash recovery still in progress almost 10 years after the fact. Also, over that time frame, average reported wages increased 21.7% while cumulative inflation was 17.27% based on CPI (not shadow stats which would be much, much higher).