Top 1 percent took record share of US income in 2012

[boilermaker55]

he pay gap between the richest 1 percent and the rest of America widened last year, making a record.

The top 1 percent of U.S. earners collected 19.3 percent of household income in 2012, their largest share in Internal Revenue Service figures going back a century.

U.S. income inequality has been growing for almost three decades. But until last year, the top 1 percent's share of pre-tax income had not yet surpassed the 18.7 percent it reached in 1927, according to an analysis of IRS figures dating to 1913 by economists at the University of California, Berkeley, the Paris School of Economics and Oxford University.

One of them, Emmanuel Saez of the University of California, Berkeley, said the incomes of the richest Americans might have surged last year in part because they cashed in stock holdings to avoid higher capital gains taxes that took effect in January.

Last year, the incomes of the top 1 percent rose 19.6 percent compared with a 1 percent increase for the remaining 99 percent.

What else can be said, the powerful line their pockets while chastising and hurting workers.
Top 1 percent took record share of US income in 2012 - NBC News.com

 

[Edgetho]

Which means... What?

That they're getting smarter and you're getting more stupid?

That the Stuttering Clusterfukk lied about caring about the 'working class'?

Or that it's conditions beyond your understanding that cause things like this....

Yeah... That's it

 

[kaz]

he pay gap between the richest 1 percent and the rest of America widened last year, making a record

They still earn 20% of the income and pay 40% of all Federal taxes. If they narrowed that injustice just a tad, good for them.

 

[hortysir]

There's that finite pie again

 

[martybegan]

he pay gap between the richest 1 percent and the rest of America widened last year, making a record.

The top 1 percent of U.S. earners collected 19.3 percent of household income in 2012, their largest share in Internal Revenue Service figures going back a century.

U.S. income inequality has been growing for almost three decades. But until last year, the top 1 percent's share of pre-tax income had not yet surpassed the 18.7 percent it reached in 1927, according to an analysis of IRS figures dating to 1913 by economists at the University of California, Berkeley, the Paris School of Economics and Oxford University.

One of them, Emmanuel Saez of the University of California, Berkeley, said the incomes of the richest Americans might have surged last year in part because they cashed in stock holdings to avoid higher capital gains taxes that took effect in January.

Last year, the incomes of the top 1 percent rose 19.6 percent compared with a 1 percent increase for the remaining 99 percent.

What else can be said, the powerful line their pockets while chastising and hurting workers.
Top 1 percent took record share of US income in 2012 - NBC News.com

 

[kaz]

There's that finite pie again

Wealth envy is so attractive on liberals, isn't it?

I'm glad I have what I have and the opportunity to make what I want of myself in a free country. I don't sit and drool that I want to take by force (there's a word for that) what someone else made of their opportunity to do the same.

 

[Redfish]

he pay gap between the richest 1 percent and the rest of America widened last year, making a record.

The top 1 percent of U.S. earners collected 19.3 percent of household income in 2012, their largest share in Internal Revenue Service figures going back a century.

U.S. income inequality has been growing for almost three decades. But until last year, the top 1 percent's share of pre-tax income had not yet surpassed the 18.7 percent it reached in 1927, according to an analysis of IRS figures dating to 1913 by economists at the University of California, Berkeley, the Paris School of Economics and Oxford University.

One of them, Emmanuel Saez of the University of California, Berkeley, said the incomes of the richest Americans might have surged last year in part because they cashed in stock holdings to avoid higher capital gains taxes that took effect in January.

Last year, the incomes of the top 1 percent rose 19.6 percent compared with a 1 percent increase for the remaining 99 percent.

What else can be said, the powerful line their pockets while chastising and hurting workers.
Top 1 percent took record share of US income in 2012 - NBC News.com

I thought the Kenyan messiah was going to fix that-------------just another in the list of his failures

 

[Mustang]

he pay gap between the richest 1 percent and the rest of America widened last year, making a record.

The top 1 percent of U.S. earners collected 19.3 percent of household income in 2012, their largest share in Internal Revenue Service figures going back a century.

U.S. income inequality has been growing for almost three decades. But until last year, the top 1 percent's share of pre-tax income had not yet surpassed the 18.7 percent it reached in 1927, according to an analysis of IRS figures dating to 1913 by economists at the University of California, Berkeley, the Paris School of Economics and Oxford University.

One of them, Emmanuel Saez of the University of California, Berkeley, said the incomes of the richest Americans might have surged last year in part because they cashed in stock holdings to avoid higher capital gains taxes that took effect in January.

Last year, the incomes of the top 1 percent rose 19.6 percent compared with a 1 percent increase for the remaining 99 percent.

What else can be said, the powerful line their pockets while chastising and hurting workers.
Top 1 percent took record share of US income in 2012 - NBC News.com

Meanwhile the RW masses are easily led by the GOP and their rich lobbyist corporate masters to rail against liberals, unions, and the OWS movement as if weakening those groups is somehow the answer to the question of who's to blame for the average citizens' economic travails.

The corporate big wigs must laugh their asses off because it's like watching one group of mistreated prisoners on a chain gang who were convicted on trumped up charges turning on another group of mistreated prisoners who were convicted on trumped up charges.

False consciousness is the best friend of corporate America. That and gullibility.

 

[Edgetho]

he pay gap between the richest 1 percent and the rest of America widened last year, making a record.

The top 1 percent of U.S. earners collected 19.3 percent of household income in 2012, their largest share in Internal Revenue Service figures going back a century.

U.S. income inequality has been growing for almost three decades. But until last year, the top 1 percent's share of pre-tax income had not yet surpassed the 18.7 percent it reached in 1927, according to an analysis of IRS figures dating to 1913 by economists at the University of California, Berkeley, the Paris School of Economics and Oxford University.

One of them, Emmanuel Saez of the University of California, Berkeley, said the incomes of the richest Americans might have surged last year in part because they cashed in stock holdings to avoid higher capital gains taxes that took effect in January.

Last year, the incomes of the top 1 percent rose 19.6 percent compared with a 1 percent increase for the remaining 99 percent.

What else can be said, the powerful line their pockets while chastising and hurting workers.
Top 1 percent took record share of US income in 2012 - NBC News.com

Meanwhile the RW masses are easily led by the GOP and their rich lobbyist corporate masters to rail against liberals, unions, and the OWS movement as if weakening those groups is somehow the answer to the question of who's to blame for the average citizens' economic travails.

The corporate big wigs must laugh their asses off because it's like watching one group of mistreated prisoners on a chaingang who were convicted on trumped up charges turning on another group of mistreated prisoners who were convicted on trumped up charges.

False consciousness is the best friend of corporate America. That and gullibility.

dimocrap scum are so fond of telling the world about how smart they are.... Why don't you guys get rich and prove it?

If it's so easy, I mean.......

 

[kaz]

The corporate big wigs must laugh their asses off because it's like watching one group of mistreated prisoners on a chaingang who were convicted on trumped up charges turning on another group of mistreated prisoners who were convicted on trumped up charges.

Actually corporate big wigs are laughing their asses off because they own liberal politicians and liberals are running around advocating more powerful government. Think about it...

 

[Wry Catcher]

he pay gap between the richest 1 percent and the rest of America widened last year, making a record.

The top 1 percent of U.S. earners collected 19.3 percent of household income in 2012, their largest share in Internal Revenue Service figures going back a century.

U.S. income inequality has been growing for almost three decades. But until last year, the top 1 percent's share of pre-tax income had not yet surpassed the 18.7 percent it reached in 1927, according to an analysis of IRS figures dating to 1913 by economists at the University of California, Berkeley, the Paris School of Economics and Oxford University.

One of them, Emmanuel Saez of the University of California, Berkeley, said the incomes of the richest Americans might have surged last year in part because they cashed in stock holdings to avoid higher capital gains taxes that took effect in January.

Last year, the incomes of the top 1 percent rose 19.6 percent compared with a 1 percent increase for the remaining 99 percent.

What else can be said, the powerful line their pockets while chastising and hurting workers.
Top 1 percent took record share of US income in 2012 - NBC News.com

In terms of consequences for our nation, what impact does an increasing amount of wealth concentrated in the few have on our future?

 

[Edgetho]

The corporate big wigs must laugh their asses off because it's like watching one group of mistreated prisoners on a chaingang who were convicted on trumped up charges turning on another group of mistreated prisoners who were convicted on trumped up charges.

Actually corporate big wigs are laughing their asses off because they own liberal politicians and liberals are running around advocating more powerful government. Think about it...

Republicans are against Big Government.

dimocraps LOVE Big Government. Big Business LOVES Big Government.

Remember when the Stuttering Clusterfukk had Jeffy Immelt as his "Jobs Czar" and Jeffy was closing plants all over the USA, including one in Wisconsin where he shipped all the jobs to China?

dimocrap voters are so incredibly stupid.....

Don't know why the Stuttering Clusterfukk would do that, do you?

Simple.... Generous Electric owned NBC at the time and NBC, like the rest of the DISGUSTING FILTH of the LSM, was in the tank for obama..... But NBC went from being partisan to being a complete and utter shill for the piece of fucking shit, obama.

You people on the left are too stupid to be anything other than what you are..... Menial laborers in menial, dead-end jobs wondering why you work for people like me.

 

[Mustang]

he pay gap between the richest 1 percent and the rest of America widened last year, making a record.

The top 1 percent of U.S. earners collected 19.3 percent of household income in 2012, their largest share in Internal Revenue Service figures going back a century.

U.S. income inequality has been growing for almost three decades. But until last year, the top 1 percent's share of pre-tax income had not yet surpassed the 18.7 percent it reached in 1927, according to an analysis of IRS figures dating to 1913 by economists at the University of California, Berkeley, the Paris School of Economics and Oxford University.

One of them, Emmanuel Saez of the University of California, Berkeley, said the incomes of the richest Americans might have surged last year in part because they cashed in stock holdings to avoid higher capital gains taxes that took effect in January.

Last year, the incomes of the top 1 percent rose 19.6 percent compared with a 1 percent increase for the remaining 99 percent.

What else can be said, the powerful line their pockets while chastising and hurting workers.
Top 1 percent took record share of US income in 2012 - NBC News.com

Meanwhile the RW masses are easily led by the GOP and their rich lobbyist corporate masters to rail against liberals, unions, and the OWS movement as if weakening those groups is somehow the answer to the question of who's to blame for the average citizens' economic travails.

The corporate big wigs must laugh their asses off because it's like watching one group of mistreated prisoners on a chaingang who were convicted on trumped up charges turning on another group of mistreated prisoners who were convicted on trumped up charges.

False consciousness is the best friend of corporate America. That and gullibility.

dimocrap scum are so fond of telling the world about how smart they are.... Why don't you guys get rich and prove it?

If it's so easy, I mean.......

The point isn't about how easy or difficult it is to get rich. The point is about how difficult it is now, as opposed to decades passed, just to support a family. The wealthy are reaping massive increases in the national income even as the average citizens are experiencing a decrease in their share of the national income AND a declining standard of living.

College tuition in this country is up 500% since 1985.

Even as productivity rates have gone way up, workers income levels have stagnated. And when your income level stagnates even as prices are going up, what the hell do you think happens? Your money doesn't go as far as it used to.

The facts are there if a person is just willing to investigate them instead of turning to sources of information which do little more than obfuscate the truth, if they're not downright lying about what's happening and why.

 

[francoHFW]

Great job, pander to the greedy idiot rich PUBS AND SILLY DUPES. VOODOO HAS WRECKED THE NONRICH ANDTHE COUNTRY over the last 30 years. Higher taxes on the bloated rich, higher min wage, a real jobs/infrastructure act, no more phony crises are needed to get the economy going and make it fair.......CEOs making 300x the average worker has to end.

Obama has delivered on ACA BUT pUBS HAVE BLOCKED A FAIR, INTELLIGENT ECONOMY...GD computer lol...

 

[Defiant1]

he pay gap between the richest 1 percent and the rest of America widened last year, making a record.

The top 1 percent of U.S. earners collected 19.3 percent of household income in 2012, their largest share in Internal Revenue Service figures going back a century.

U.S. income inequality has been growing for almost three decades. But until last year, the top 1 percent's share of pre-tax income had not yet surpassed the 18.7 percent it reached in 1927, according to an analysis of IRS figures dating to 1913 by economists at the University of California, Berkeley, the Paris School of Economics and Oxford University.

One of them, Emmanuel Saez of the University of California, Berkeley, said the incomes of the richest Americans might have surged last year in part because they cashed in stock holdings to avoid higher capital gains taxes that took effect in January.

Last year, the incomes of the top 1 percent rose 19.6 percent compared with a 1 percent increase for the remaining 99 percent.

What else can be said, the powerful line their pockets while chastising and hurting workers.
Top 1 percent took record share of US income in 2012 - NBC News.com

In terms of consequences for our nation, what impact does an increasing amount of wealth concentrated in the few have on our future?

None. They aren't taking it from your pocket.

 

[Mustang]

The corporate big wigs must laugh their asses off because it's like watching one group of mistreated prisoners on a chaingang who were convicted on trumped up charges turning on another group of mistreated prisoners who were convicted on trumped up charges.

Actually corporate big wigs are laughing their asses off because they own liberal politicians and liberals are running around advocating more powerful government. Think about it...

There are plenty of Democrats who have been seduced by big money contributions from corporations, so I'm not sure what you're talking about.

As for me, while I might be occasionally heartened by calls for reform, when nothing meaningful happens, I can't help but suspect that I'm being played by politicians who may "empathize with the plight of the middle class" but don't have any intention of offering anything more than lip service to the cause.

 

[kaz]

The point isn't about how easy or difficult it is to get rich. The point is about how difficult it is now, as opposed to decades passed, just to support a family.

Even after almost 5 years of Obama, it's easier now and more rewarding in this country then for almost any in the history of mankind. The problem is that liberals are weak and you want lots of reward for almost no effort. You don't get that your soft life was provided by a lot of hard work and in your greed, you're working to kill the goose that laid the golden egg.

 

[Wry Catcher]

he pay gap between the richest 1 percent and the rest of America widened last year, making a record.

The top 1 percent of U.S. earners collected 19.3 percent of household income in 2012, their largest share in Internal Revenue Service figures going back a century.

U.S. income inequality has been growing for almost three decades. But until last year, the top 1 percent's share of pre-tax income had not yet surpassed the 18.7 percent it reached in 1927, according to an analysis of IRS figures dating to 1913 by economists at the University of California, Berkeley, the Paris School of Economics and Oxford University.

One of them, Emmanuel Saez of the University of California, Berkeley, said the incomes of the richest Americans might have surged last year in part because they cashed in stock holdings to avoid higher capital gains taxes that took effect in January.

Last year, the incomes of the top 1 percent rose 19.6 percent compared with a 1 percent increase for the remaining 99 percent.

What else can be said, the powerful line their pockets while chastising and hurting workers.
Top 1 percent took record share of US income in 2012 - NBC News.com

Meanwhile the RW masses are easily led by the GOP and their rich lobbyist corporate masters to rail against liberals, unions, and the OWS movement as if weakening those groups is somehow the answer to the question of who's to blame for the average citizens' economic travails.

The corporate big wigs must laugh their asses off because it's like watching one group of mistreated prisoners on a chaingang who were convicted on trumped up charges turning on another group of mistreated prisoners who were convicted on trumped up charges.

False consciousness is the best friend of corporate America. That and gullibility.

dimocrap scum are so fond of telling the world about how smart they are.... Why don't you guys get rich and prove it?

If it's so easy, I mean.......

Every post of yours is framed by hate and includes a personal attack on those whose opinion - even when supported by facts - differs from your hidden agenda. You contribute nothing to this thread nor to any other upon which you soil with unreasonable anger and lack of any substance.

 

[ClosedCaption]

he pay gap between the richest 1 percent and the rest of America widened last year, making a record.

The top 1 percent of U.S. earners collected 19.3 percent of household income in 2012, their largest share in Internal Revenue Service figures going back a century.

U.S. income inequality has been growing for almost three decades. But until last year, the top 1 percent's share of pre-tax income had not yet surpassed the 18.7 percent it reached in 1927, according to an analysis of IRS figures dating to 1913 by economists at the University of California, Berkeley, the Paris School of Economics and Oxford University.

One of them, Emmanuel Saez of the University of California, Berkeley, said the incomes of the richest Americans might have surged last year in part because they cashed in stock holdings to avoid higher capital gains taxes that took effect in January.

Last year, the incomes of the top 1 percent rose 19.6 percent compared with a 1 percent increase for the remaining 99 percent.

What else can be said, the powerful line their pockets while chastising and hurting workers.
Top 1 percent took record share of US income in 2012 - NBC News.com

And by earning more money they created more jobs and now the US unemployment rate is around 4%.

*gets a tap on the shoulder*

*whispers*

...Wait, You're kidding me, right?

 

[ClosedCaption]

Every post of yours is framed by hate and includes a personal attack on those whose opinion - even when supported by facts - differs from your hidden agenda. You contribute nothing to this thread nor to any other upon which you soil with unreasonable anger and lack of any substance.

Hes madder than an alligator with a tooth ache. EVERY DAM DAY!