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NRaleighLiberal

(60,008 posts)
Sat Jul 14, 2012, 05:05 PM Jul 2012

The Class Warfare Election - Krugman Blog

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/14/the-class-warfare-election/?smid=tw-NytimesKrugman&seid=auto

snip

"So like it or not, we have an election in which one candidate is proposing a redistribution from the top — which is currently paying lower taxes than it has in 80 years — downward, mainly to lower-income workers, while the other is proposing a large redistribution from the poor and the middle class to the top.

So the next time someone tut-tuts about “class warfare”, remember that the class war is already happening, in real policy — with the top .01 percent on offense."

(good graph at the link)
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