Letters to Editor ; What's Your Problem? Reaganomics Worked Bring Back Factories Created Unequal Two More Requests No True Peace Customer Complaint Guns Do Kill People

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ECONOMICS

In response to Chris Poole's "Free dinner" letter [Feb. 6], I submit these wealth distribution figures in juxtaposition to his taxation figures:

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Letters to Editor ; What's Your Problem? Reaganomics Worked Bring Back Factories Created Unequal Two More Requests No True Peace Customer Complaint Guns Do Kill People

The top 5 percent of income controls 50 percent of the wealth; the top 10, 70 percent; the middle 30, 25 percent; and the bottom 60, 4 percent.

As for his dinner check analogy in which 20 people divvy up a $2,000 tab? Here's the scenario from a different angle:

Diners 1-10 (bottom 50 percent), who skated on the check, are unemployed or hold minimum-wage jobs and can't afford t...

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