SOTU: A Coda
1st February 2011
Heck, forget the wealthiest two percent–the top one percent are pretty much pulling the wagon, as the Blogprof shows with this chart. The top one percent pay more income taxes than the bottom 95 percent.
We are rapidly reaching the point where a large majority of Americans are free riders. Whether democracy can survive under that condition is a wide-open question.
February 1st, 2011 at 10:28
I can’t agree that it’s a “wide-open” question, whether democracy can survive with a majority of Americans as free riders.
It simply can’t.