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For starters, he said, you tax the richest more than they're paying now. Said Grantham: "We have actually made the tax structure friendlier to the top 10%."

...the top ten percent have 50 percent of the income and pay 70 percent of the taxes. Let's take a look at the 47 percent who aren't paying any federal income tax at all.




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Re: According to Faux News' Brit Hume, inequality which favors the rich shouldn't be anyone else's concern...
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Wed, 21 Sep 11 6:38 PM
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"You can't run the economy on BMWs alone," Grantham said. "If the average person is in a pickle, how do you have a healthy economy?"

For starters, he said, you tax the richest more than they're paying now. Said Grantham: "We have actually made the tax structure friendlier to the top 10%."

Exactly!
They are strangling the Golden Goose, the consumer.
This will bite them down the road.


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