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Tuesday, February 07, 2012

Gimme Shelter


Playing For Change
Gimme Shelter

Half of all taxpayers will get less than $100 from the Bush tax cut. Those who make more than $1 million a year will get an average cut of $92,000. That may average out to $1,100, but it ain't going to the average family. As The New Yorker recently noted, if Bill Gates walked into a soup kitchen serving 60 bums, the average worth of the people in that room would be $1 billion each. But it would still be Bill Gates and 60 bums.
---Molly Ivins in 2003

Rolling Stones: Gimme Shelter