Well, fair enough! But what is this chart, anyway?
We were curious. And as it turns out, Pocan was simply trying to find a way to
make the staggering growth in U.S. income inequality since the 1970s more
comprehensible. According to tax expert David Cay Johnston, if you
represent these increases on a line chart, and one inch is equivalent to $59…
The top 10 percent would go to 163 feet. The top 1 percent’s line would go to
844 feet. And the top 1 percent of the top 1 percent would go for five miles.
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