The Congressional Budget Office numbers he mentioned (income of top 1 percent increased by 275 percent) represents the period from 1979 to 2007, a period of time before the current recession started. This is not “the past three decades,” but, in fact, are the three decades between 1979 and 2007.
—Bill Burton
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
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