May 11, 2011
How To Lie With Statistics, Episode I Can't Count That High
NP: Gary Lucas, The Ordeal of Civility
I'm suspicious of this chart, and not just because Salam carves out a range ($100K to $250K) that doesn't exist on the category axis to make his argument. If you sum everything north of $500K, you get approximately $1.3 million. And the number of households in each bucket is a factor in the argument to tax the ultra-rich, is it not? That's not represented anywhere here.
Also, $250,000 a year is 'comfortably beneath the upper bound of the “middle-class”?' When did that happen?
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