Things I Learned About Senator Blanche Lincoln With My 'Puter

by: tremayne

Thu Apr 02, 2009 at 10:57

Via RandomNonviolence in Quick Hits I learned about a budget amendment being cosponsored by Senators Blanche Lincoln and Jon Kyl which would provide a deep cut in estate taxes.

I learned, after a digging around awhile and finding this chart, that the rich people in this country are very very very rich and, well, most of us aren't.

Hard to see it, but those with annual incomes in the millions are represented by the vertical red line on the left and those making less than a million (i.e., almost everyone) are the horizontal red line on the bottom. Lincoln and Kyle are concerned about the people on the vertical red line. Actually, as the OpEd piece linked above points out, the concern is not for everyone on the vertical red line but only the wealthiest of those wealthy.

Why would Lincoln, a Democrat, be so concerned about that tiny and very wealthy segment of the population I wondered.

I did some more digging and learned some interesting things.