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Originally Posted by Emsanders
The top 1% of the US population controls 40% of the US's wealth. Call me crazy but I don't think that is honestly fair.
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Well, you may not be crazy, but trying looking at this from a different perspective. 1% of the US population pays 40% of all taxes. The top 2% of wage earners contribute almost 60% of all tax revenues collected by the US Gov., which is then redistributed in a variety a social programs such as education. Also consider the billions of dollars the Feds have spent on eduction reform since LBJ's Great Society in the 1960's, and what little there is to show for it. As you've stated, it's still broken.