How has wealth distribution to the top 1% money earners worked out for the middle class backbone of the USA?

When the top 400 have as much wealth as the bottom 150,000,000 there seems to be some kind of problem.

What confuses me is those who claim if we taxed the top 5% 100% of their income, it wouldn't cover the deficit long term when their annual income is in excess of $1.5 trillion as of 2002. (couldn't find a newer statistic.) http://visualizingeconomics.com/2006/01/... The top 1% control 60% of the total income, yet they complain about making them pay 37% of the taxes. The top are taxed on other sources of income they have been able to get valued as non-earned and therefore subject to much lower taxes already.

The income tax they pay is based on what they have been unable to get declared non-earned or which their accountants and lawyers haven't figured out a way to shelter. The facts are that things were much better in the US in times when taxes were higher than they are now when they are already at the lowest rate in our history.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.