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K&r Demovictory9 Sep 2020 #1
Right, those commie bastards at RAND.... Guy Whitey Corngood Sep 2020 #2
RAND has been used and abused for decades. Sometimes they are right about something. erronis Sep 2020 #29
Shocked? Really? Solly Mack Sep 2020 #3
Any other conclusion would have been shocking. lagomorph777 Sep 2020 #12
No shit. Solly Mack Sep 2020 #13
Yep! Rebl2 Sep 2020 #24
40 years of Reaganomics'll do that. Kid Berwyn Sep 2020 #4
Reaganomics put it on steroids. But it started in the early seventies with Blue_true Sep 2020 #18
Precisely Sherman A1 Sep 2020 #32
Reaganomics gave Corporate America a huge tax break. Kid Berwyn Sep 2020 #34
I put it at Kennedy's tax cut Warpy Sep 2020 #36
That tax plan also set in motion the system where high executives Blue_true Sep 2020 #38
Exactly. It was also at the cost of stiffing small shareholders on what should have been dividends. Warpy Sep 2020 #39
Most of us with a Wellstone ruled Sep 2020 #5
Granted you're correct Sherman A1 Sep 2020 #33
K&R smirkymonkey Sep 2020 #6
We need to start taxing wealth, high incomes, stock sales while eliminating many cuts and loopholes LonePirate Sep 2020 #7
A 2 cent tax, per each $1K trade on Wall Street would help irisblue Sep 2020 #48
Tax Wealth Not Work DanieRains Sep 2020 #8
It Is The Same Billionaires Who Pay For All The Ads We See On TeeVee DanieRains Sep 2020 #9
I was shocked. Shocked I tells ya. LakeArenal Sep 2020 #10
Shocked? With Rs in charge since Reagan? catrose Sep 2020 #11
They are also shocked edhopper Sep 2020 #14
Yep! "Trickle down economics" is doing exactly what it is designed to do... Wounded Bear Sep 2020 #15
We all know that nothing trickles and it doesn't go down FakeNoose Sep 2020 #16
Trickle down equals piss on 'em economics. japple Sep 2020 #28
K&r miyazaki Sep 2020 #17
Shocked?! Yavin4 Sep 2020 #19
It's never called "redistribution" when wealth is redistributed UPWARD JHB Sep 2020 #20
Susan Collins is likely concerned NRaleighLiberal Sep 2020 #21
The only shocking thing about this is that anyone was shocked. n/t TygrBright Sep 2020 #22
Highly recommend. BeckyDem Sep 2020 #23
"I'm shocked. Shocked, I tell you... zentrum Sep 2020 #25
Seriously? Shocked? We've been living it. Middle class on life support and we're on the edge. Evolve Dammit Sep 2020 #26
Today's Minimum Wage Would Be $24 if worker pay had kept pace with productivity gains since 1968 iluvtennis Sep 2020 #27
2.5 Trillion! "Reverse distributed" OMG !!! liberalla Sep 2020 #30
Only someone truly clueless or asleep for the last four decades could be shocked pecosbob Sep 2020 #31
Trickle up poverty Dr. T Sep 2020 #35
Where is the MSM on this? Boomerproud Sep 2020 #37
When I first graduated from college in 1984, my supervisor said that incomes double every 15 years. aggiesal Sep 2020 #40
and somehow these clueless bozos were SHOCKED. paulkienitz Sep 2020 #41
Are any television media TheDemsshouldhireme Sep 2020 #42
I haven't seen it reported anywhere Sherman A1 Sep 2020 #43
Thanks for stealing my family's future johnnyfins Sep 2020 #44
Dear Tea Partiers, Trumpers, all Republicans: Your wealth has officially been redistributed. Beartracks Sep 2020 #45
Unionism was supposed to prevent this. Aussie105 Sep 2020 #46
Precisely Sherman A1 Sep 2020 #47
Link: "the blame lies..." Grins Sep 2020 #49
Elizabeth Warren is always Sherman A1 Sep 2020 #50
Imagine if workers actually HAD that income?! That money would be pouring into the economy Roland99 Sep 2020 #51
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