On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 17:54, Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote: > > Speaking of debunking, are there any articles that take up the rightwing > claim that the top 3 percent of American taxpayers are responsible for > 46 percent of all the tax revenue? Not exactly sure of the figures but > this about right. Is there a way to put this into context?
There was a short thread on LBO a few weeks ago on a related topic. I misinterpreted it to be about what you're talking about and this was my response. http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20110328/003558.html Not exactly a debunking of the math, but a structural critique of the implicit argument. s _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
