{"id":640,"date":"2009-06-17T02:47:48","date_gmt":"2009-06-17T02:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/?p=640"},"modified":"2009-06-17T02:47:48","modified_gmt":"2009-06-17T02:47:48","slug":"where-the-pie-went","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/17\/where-the-pie-went\/","title":{"rendered":"where the pie went"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>friend of mine made a couple graphs from data statistics at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbo.gov\/doc.cfm?index=9884\">Congressional Budget Office<\/a>. This was already graphed in <a href=\"http:\/\/open.salon.com\/blog\/mick_arran\/2009\/01\/09\/cbo_study_of_income_equality_since_reagan_we_got_screwed\">open Salon recently<\/a>, but with fewer variables from the original statistics, and the graph itself was a tiny jpeg, so we decided to redo it<\/p>\n<p>this new graph is probably more accurate. Actually two graphs, pre-tax, and post-tax income distribution from 1979 to present<\/p>\n<p>in the following two graphs, by definition, the top quintile is those sets of households whose incomes exceed the incomes of at least 80% of households<\/p>\n<p>pre tax<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/9640932@N04\/3634641210\/\" title=\"income_share_percent_change_pretax3 (by auweia)\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3383\/3634641210_ba6b3decf4.jpg\" title=\"income_share_percent_change_pretax3 (by auweia)\" alt=\"income_share_percent_change_pretax3 (by auweia)\" width=\"465\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>post tax<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/9640932@N04\/3634641110\/\" title=\"income_share_percent_change_aftertax2 (by auweia)\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3359\/3634641110_746e005710.jpg\" title=\"income_share_percent_change_aftertax2 (by auweia)\" alt=\"income_share_percent_change_aftertax2 (by auweia)\" width=\"465\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>click through on Flickr to enlarge, or here are the originals<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/utrum.dyndns.org:8000\/income_share_percent_change_aftertax.png\">after tax distribution<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/utrum.dyndns.org:8000\/income_share_percent_change_pretax.png\">pre tax distribution<\/a><\/p>\n<p>this 3rd graph shows the top .01% earners in red, <\/p>\n<p>after tax<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/9640932@N04\/3633983539\/\" title=\"income_share_percent_change_aftertax4 (by auweia)\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3302\/3633983539_dfeee8ef83.jpg\" title=\"income_share_percent_change_aftertax4 (by auweia)\" alt=\"income_share_percent_change_aftertax4 (by auweia)\" width=\"465\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/utrum.dyndns.org:8000\/income_share_percent_change_aftertax.png\">original graph<\/a><\/p>\n<p>pre tax<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/9640932@N04\/3634807804\/\" title=\"income_share_percent_change_pretax5 (by auweia)\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3621\/3634807804_36a68146a1.jpg\" title=\"income_share_percent_change_pretax5 (by auweia)\" alt=\"income_share_percent_change_pretax5 (by auweia)\" width=\"465\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/utrum.dyndns.org:8000\/income_share_percent_change_pretax.png\">original graph<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>friend of mine made a couple graphs from data statistics at the Congressional Budget Office. This was already graphed in open Salon recently, but with &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5-misc","tag-5-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}