General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: Rich Democrats Don’t Care About Income Inequality Any More Than Rich Republicans [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Why is it that extremists here love vicious, anti-democrat right-wing propaganda as much as they do?
Now WHY it's garbage: Because attitudes of the top 10% of the top 1% hardly can be expected to mirror those of the remaining 99.9% of us, much less of the liberal half.
BTW, speaking of the top tiers, 144 billionaires have given away at least half their fortunes under the Giving Pledge program organized by Bill and Melinda Gates, that is, under their program alone. This is an international list, and I haven't gone over the list to see how many are Americans, but America has created a full half the world's billionaires. (I'm so proud. Are we a rich nation, or what!)
It is also well known that most who have joined the Giving Pledge are liberal or left-leaning in personality and political orientation. Happily, though, responsible conservatives are also respectably represented.
This is just a partial picture, of course. America has far, far, far more people who measure their wealth in the hundreds of millions than billionaires, the ultra-rich being about 30,000 or so in the U.S. out of 330,000,000 of us.