Your phrase was the "rich getting richer, and the poor getting poorer."
According to the table, the median income of the top quintile percent dropped by 5 to 6 percent.
The middle two quintiles dropped by 8 to 9 percent.
The median income of the bottom quintile went up by 4 percent.
When we were arguing about taxes, liberals here spent a lot of time telling me that the actual amount of taxes paid by the wealthy (many times that paid by the less wealthy) was irrelevant, and it was all about tax rates or percentages.
Have we switched back now? I do have trouble keeping up sometimes.
