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rich foreigners; when you add it all up, a tycoon still scandalously pays a lower proportion of his income in tax than his secretary. But it is wrong to say, on this issue, there is no difference at all. The gap is real, and millions of people live in

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 • Poverty measured as below 60 per cent median income rose from 12 per cent in 1977 to 25 per cent in 1992 – more than doubling. • Poverty measured as below 50 per cent mean

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Joe Biden: You Call It Redistribution of Wealth I Call It Being Fair
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