{"id":24403,"date":"2011-12-09T21:36:03","date_gmt":"2011-12-10T04:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/09\/six-vs-one-hundred-million.html"},"modified":"2011-12-10T00:06:31","modified_gmt":"2011-12-10T07:06:31","slug":"six-vs-one-hundred-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/09\/six-vs-one-hundred-million.html","title":{"rendered":"Six vs. One Hundred Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six people &#8212; the heirs of the founders of Walmart &#8212; have a net worth equal to that of <i>the bottom 30% of the American public<\/i> (call it 100 million people).<\/p>\n<p>Which they spend on (among other things) trying to do away with the estate tax so that <s>family farms<\/s> <i>they<\/i> can pass on their wealth undiminished to their own heirs in turn. <\/p>\n<p>That&#39;s not a democracy; that&#39;s an aristocracy. #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fthinkprogress.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F12%2Fwalmartcart.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/economy\/2011\/12\/09\/385941\/walmart-heirs-worth-30-percent-bottom\/'>The Walmart Heirs Have The Same Net Worth As The Bottom 30 Percent Of Americans<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIncome inequality in the U.S. is currently the highest its been since the 1920s, with the 400 richest Americans (who are all billionaires) having as much wealth as the bottom 50 percent of Americans c&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six people &#8212; the heirs of the founders of Walmart &#8212; have a net worth equal to that of the bottom 30% of the American public (call it 100 million people). 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