Tripled

Bankers Join Billionaires to Debunk ‘Imbecile’ Attack on Top 1%

Max Abelson writes:

The top 1 percent of taxpayers in the U.S. made at least $343,927 in 2009, the last year data is available, according to the Internal Revenue Service. While average household income increased 62 percent from 1979 through 2007, the top 1 percent’s more than tripled, an October Congressional Budget Office report showed. As a result, the U.S. had greater income inequality in 2007 than China or Iran, according to the Central Intelligence Agency’s World Factbook.

Wow. Just wow.

Lee Feagin @leefeagin