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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;FadeToBlack, post: 1530024, member: 39705&quot;]It all boils down to degradation of the middle class.&nbsp; If you look back to the &#039;70&#039;s, we had a large, booming middle class that paid taxes... that base was eroded by the elimination of manufacturing jobs and the elimination of unions to the point where we are at today... Where the middle class is a fraction of what it used to be, and the majority of individuals that hold jobs that would have once been considered middle-class jobs, are now considered lower-class jobs.</p><p><br /></p><p>Rebuild industrial manufacturing, rebuild the middle class, then you can tax more fairly.&nbsp; I have just one little thing to show you...</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.baratunde.com/storage/thumbnails/3367747-14253764-thumbnail.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1316566159094" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>That graph shows, when boiled down to it, that the wealthy are taking home more money than ever before, while paying less taxes (graph doesn&#039;t show this, but we know it&#039;s true...) than they have in decades.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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