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How to Run a Budget like an Idiot

New Census data show that the top 1 percent of U.S. earners now take home a greater share of national income than at any time since the height of the go-go 1920s. The top 300,000 earners together receive almost as much income as the bottom 150 million.

Democrats inhale these facts and breathe out fire.

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This article was originally published in Fortune.

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