Chart: It's Never Been a Better Time to Be Rich

[geardaddy]

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/09/income-inequality-historic-rome-one-percent

more at link

[Louisiana1976]

1. America needs a socialist government. A socialist government would abolish the plutocracy by taxing

it into nonexistence and make life better for the poor and middle class.

[tooeyeten]

3. You mean

Bring back the middle destroyed by Reagan etal.

[tooeyeten]

2. 1929 to 2012

Back to the future.

[jberryhill]

4. "* - includes slaves"

There's a lot packed into that asterisk, if you look at the numbers.

I can just see someone looking at this and thinking, "Dang, we got 22% and don't even have slaves yet!"

[geardaddy]

5. Indeed!