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C’est ce point clé de l’écologie politique qui effraie tant M. Bruckner – et les Ferry et Allègre de tout poil : pour résoudre la crise écologique, il faut résoudre la question sociale. Et la question sociale, aujourd’hui, c’est une inégalité devenue insupportable, tant au sein des sociétés qu’à l’échelle du globe.
~ Réponse à Pascal Bruckner : oui, il faudra reprendre aux riches | Rue89 Planète -
~ Oligarchy, American Style - NYTimes.comWe have a society in which money is increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few people, and in which that concentration of income and wealth threatens to make us a democracy in name only.
We still like to think of ourselves as a middle-class country. But with the bottom 80 percent of households now receiving less than half of total income, that’s a vision increasingly at odds with reality.
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To add financial insult to injury, the richest of the rich pay less and less each year as a percentage of their monstrous incomes. The top 400 taxpayers during the 1950s faced a 90 percent federal tax rate. By 1995 their effective tax rate – what they really paid after all deductions as a percent of all their income – fell to 30 percent. Now it’s barely 16 percent.
