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Statistical class warfare.(Between The Lines)(tax burden of rich versus poor)(Brief Article)
ITEM: "The 400 wealthiest taxpayers accounted for more than 1 percent of all the income in the United States in 2000, more than double their share just eight years earlier, according to new data from the Internal Revenue Service," reported the New York Times for June 26th. "But their tax burden plummeted over the same period. The data ... shows that the average income of the 400 wealthiest taxpayers was almost $174 million in 2000. That was nearly quadruple the $46.8 million average in 1992."
BETWEEN THE LINES: This invitation to envy relies on misleading interpretations (e.g., the wealthy make too much but are not taxed enough).
The class-warfare gambit was so blatant that the World Socialist website quickly jumped aboard, with its headline echoing the Times: "Incomes of the ultra-rich quadrupled in eight years." A Wall Street Journal news story pointed with alarm to "so much money in so few hands" and the "startling accumulation of ...
- Outer limits of class warfare.(COMMENTARY)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times December 3, 2002 700+ words
...remember that the nation's tax burden will remain historically...individual taxes and the total tax burden will be higher than any...seeing the end-result of class warfare: A shrinking group is...virtually as large a tax burden as ever been supported...
- Class warfare at the tax cut frontier.(Commentary)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times Roberts, Paul Graig January 26, 2001 700+ words
...a Marxist party is class warfare. The demonized class...shoulders. The Democrats' class warfare has been so successful...relative share of the tax burden paid by the rich...you will hear much class warfare rhetoric. That's...
- Tax-cut issue has lawmakers engaging in class warfare.(The Dallas Morning News)
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Dodge, Robert May 18, 2001 700+ words
WASHINGTON _ Class warfare has broken out on Capitol...workers who shoulder the tax burden, which increasingly...paid less of the income tax burden: The bottom 50 percent...percent of the income tax burden in 1998. That compares...
- Envious positions: what do class-warriors really think? Take the class-warfare...
- Magazine article from: National Review Moore, Stephen September 1, 1997 700+ words
CLASS warfare reared its ugly head again...enthusiastically joined the class-warfare assault. Before the budget...exaggerated. Take the class-warfare IQ test below, and you...of the federal income-tax burden, according to the latest...
- Crying 'class warfare'.(OPINION)
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor September 23, 2003 700+ words
...accusing people of dealing in "class warfare" has become common in this town. Criticizing CEO pay equals class warfare, because it pits the rich against...increasing taxes on the wealthy is class warfare because it suggests a zero-sum...
- Class-warfare strategy fails Democrats opposing tax cuts.(Nation)(News Analysis)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times Lambro, Donald February 11, 2001 700+ words
The Democrats' class-warfare attacks on President Bush's across...That's why the anti-tax cut, class warfare tactic being used by Senate Democratic...danger to the Democrats' classic class warfare argument than there has ever been...
- Class warfare said not to be working for Democrats; Many earners expect they'll...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times January 26, 2003 700+ words
...they do not believe the Democrats' class-warfare attacks against tax cuts for upper...greater confidence in dealing with class warfare now than there was, say, 10 or 12...feeling that economic growth trumps class warfare because we have a bigger investor class...
- Waging class warfare; Democratic Party tactics will fail again.(OPED)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times August 26, 2002 700+ words
...and a sinking stock market as well. Class warfare is nothing new to the Democrats. It...Stanley Greenberg, cling to this cliched class warfare script. "We will win this battle...news for the Democrats, relying on a class warfare strategy this fall, corporate abuse...
Source: HighBeam Research, Statistical class warfare.(Between The Lines)(tax burden of rich...