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Don’t Call Them the Top 20%
After Christmas this year, Kyle and I visited my parents’ house for a couple days. The looming fiscal cliff was still all over the news, and I opened the newspaper to an infographic on how the various tax brackets would be impacted by different proposals and so forth. The taxpayers were divided into fifths: the bottom 20%, 2nd 20%, middle 20%, 4th 20%, and top “rich” 20%. Kyle and I fall into the middle 20% … Read entire article »
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