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happyfunball

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  1. Agree but we but we also shouldn’t allow 80+ yr olds to vote either
  2. Relevant for dems nomination
  3. Or evidence of Graham’s penchant for barely legal men
  4. If anyone had doubt about the direction of conservatives
  5. It is easy to shit on Trump and Co, but I rather no deal than a bad deal. I’m more amazed that Trump can walk away and not fold like a cheap lawn chair.
  6. Goldman came out with a report to be long energy and financial stocks so that should help rally
  7. That would mean a lot of posters would have to move out of their mom’s basement and get jobs though
  8. Video of Kim after negotiations with Trump released
  9. Did they discover any info to impeach the president or is this just 28 pages of people jerking each other off about Trump being an idiot criminal?
  10. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/24/opinion/income-inequality-upper-middle-class.html I think the chart above helps to resolve the debate. It shows that both sides have a point — but that it’s a mistake to divide the country into only two groups. To make grand pronouncements about the American economy, you need to talk about three groups. The first is indeed the top 1 percent of earners, and especially the very richest. Their post-tax incomes (and wealth) have surged since 1980, rising at a much faster rate than economic growth. They are now capturing an even greater share of the economy’s bounty. Then there are the bottom 90 percent of households, who are in the opposite position. The numbers here take into account taxes and government transfers, like Social Security, financial aid and anti-poverty benefits. Even so, the incomes of the bottom 90 percent have trailed G.D.P. Over time, their share of the economy’s bounty has shrunk. Finally, there is the upper middle class, defined here as the 90th to 99th percentiles of the income distribution (making roughly $120,000 to $425,000 a year after tax). Their income path doesn’t look like that of either the first or second group. It’s not above the line or below it. It’s almost directly on top of it. Since 1980, the incomes of the upper middle class have been growing at almost the identical rate as the economy.
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