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Uploaded by on Oct 16, 2011

ABC News broke down IRS tax data to provide some facts on the top one percent of income earners in the United States. The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur shares the results.

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  • @Danne9000 - No harder than anyone else. Certainly nothing worth tens and hundreds of million/year. They basically spend the day gambling with OTHER PEOPLE'S money and get paid for gambling on/with other people's money. It's basically like your job being to go play slot machines and invest other people's money on craps games at Vegas or Atlantic City and getting paid millions for it.

    Then they can count on the government to help them out when they fuck up (like the 2008 and 2009 bailouts).

  • @Danne9000 - I'm not "letting" them do anything, they're investing money from capital gains and dividends (which is returns on other people's money and revenues other people created). They're being allowed to do this because of the way business laws are structured, non-board members have basically no say in this. I would gladly stop them if I could but these same people carry the members of government in their pocket like so many dimes to borrow a phrase from "The Godfather".

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  • Danne9000 is an entrepreneur. he swallows jizz in back allies for beer money

  • @A86 F**ken Wall Street, F**ken Corporate Bailouts, F**ken Damned Government that doesn't give a sh*t about us little guys...

  • I just dont understand liberals.....

  • That's fucked up!

  • the whole system is to blame

  • But Eric Wilkinson is right on one thing, its the whole political system at fault, the crook speaks the truth. Let a crook into your house give em the keys , the codes to your safe , lead em to your bedroom and your naked wife shure as f that its your fault(presidents and parlament represent the house and they do all this)

  • whats with the subtitles, who screwed up the subtitles? if your deaf the subtitles are wrong

  • why does cenk talk in that voice when reading quotes lol

  • And for pete's sake, forget about the "must have" gift for Christmas, and just get somthing personal, instead.

    It's just a trick that big buisnesses use to make money off of sheep.

    Instead of an X-box, get your kid the complete set of Harry Potter novels, or a new bike.

    Instead of an electronic gizmo, get your spouse a gift-certificate to a spa, or two-tickets to see a concert together or somthing like that.

    Seriously, does anyone even remember what the "must have" gifts were last year?

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