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[Pinky]

Top-earning 1% of the population holds more income than the poorest HALF of the population, is kind of relevant to everyone not just hip-oh who am I kidding you're an imbecile

Er, how is that relevant? Unless you are retarded AND living in seclusion, the quality of life (an actual tangible issue) of America's poor is great. Get some perspective: we are a nation of kings in the land of opportunity.
http://www.heritage.org/research/reports...in-america

And on top of that, not only is the importance of income inequality being exaggerated but the inequality itself is also exaggerated.
http://www.stlouisfed.org/publications/i...s/?id=1920

... honorable mention: the top income brackets pay a disproportionately large share of the tax burden according to the amount of wealth they own, while the lower income brackets (45th percentile) have no net tax liability, and brackets lower than that percentile are tax *consumers* rather than tax payers.
http://www.taxfoundation.org/news/show/22652.html
http://money.cnn.com/2011/04/14/pf/taxes.../index.htm

In conclusion, please go eat a bag of dicks.