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Surprise! Under Trump, Super-Rich Rake In Billions While You Get…A #MAGA Hat

If you are in the 99 percent here is how well you are faring under Trump policies compared to the 1 percent: for each dollar of increased income that you earned in 2018, each One-Percenter got $88 more income.

Huge as that ratio is, it’s small change compared to the super-rich, the 0.01 percent of Americans with incomes of $10 million and up. That ratio is $1 for you and $2,215 for each super-rich American household. Let’s call them the Platinum-Premiere-Point-Zero-One-Percenters.

The slice of American income pie going to the poor shrank under Trump by the same amount that it grew for the super-rich.

Ponder that. Continue reading.

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