Anyone who thought the Great Recession might reduce America's wild lurch toward wild inequality should think again. The most recent data show that just 15,600 super-rich households -- the top 1/10th of 1 percent -- pocketed 37 percent of all the economic gains in 2010. The rest of the gains went to others in the top 10 percent.
Republican Social Darwinists are determined that the Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 be made permanent. Those cuts saved the richest 1 percent of taxpayers (roughly 1.4 million people) more money on their taxes last year than the rest of America's 141 million taxpayers received in total income.
Thank you, House Republicans, for "sharpening the contrast" between your radical Social Darwinism and those of us who still cling to the belief that the most fortunate have a responsibility to the rest.
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