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Sep202011

If we're experiencing "class warfare," the rich have vanquished everyone else

DateTuesday, September 20, 2011 at 20:46 | Authorbaratunde | tagged , , , ,

via Mother Jones

With the top 10% of income earners controlling 2/3rds of the nation's wealth, with payroll taxes covering an increasing share of government revenue, with CEO pay off the charts as a multiple of the average worker pay and with half the members of congress being millionaires, it's abundantly clear that if we're experiencing "class warfare," the rich have vanquished everyone else.

"Warfare" requires both sides to be fighting. This is a slaughter.

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