18
Sep
Don’t let the liberals deceive you into believing that a decade of sustained growth without inflation in America (in the ’80s) resulted in a bigger gap between the have and the have-nots. Figures compiled by the Congressional Budget Office dispel that myth
Rush Limbaugh, (The Way Things Ought to Be, p. 70.)
Reality: CBO numbers for after-tax incomes show that in 1980 the richest fifth of our country had eight times the income of the poorest fifth. By 1989, the ratio was more
than 20-to-1.
