{"id":2610,"date":"2006-08-12T18:51:09","date_gmt":"2006-08-13T01:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/08\/12\/giving-relative-income-a-sense-of-scale\/"},"modified":"2006-08-12T18:51:09","modified_gmt":"2006-08-13T01:51:09","slug":"giving-relative-income-a-sense-of-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=2610","title":{"rendered":"Giving Relative Income A Sense Of Scale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/decile-incomes-big.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image2608\" src=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/decile-incomes.gif\" alt=\"Average Pre-Tax Income By Decile and Top 1%\" class=\"alignright\" \/><\/a>This is interesting. What the graph shows is the relative income of the top <strike>1% of<\/strike> 400 earners in the US (that&#8217;s the tall green bar, all the way to the right) compared to the other 99.99% of us (that&#8217;s the tiny green bars all the way at the bottom &#8211; scroll down, and down, and down&#8230;.).<\/p>\n<p>Click on the image to see a larger version of same. Visit the source, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rationalrevolution.net\/articles\/american_income_taxation.htm\">this page at rationalrevolution.net<\/a>, and scroll to near the bottom to see more info about the data. (The entire page is well worth reading, with a lot of information about income and who pays taxes).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is interesting. What the graph shows is the relative income of the top 1% of 400 earners in the US (that&#8217;s the tall green bar, all the way to the right) compared to the other 99.99% of us (that&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=2610\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-and-the-like"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}