\As ThinkProgress has repeatedly noted, crucial services and public investments for Main Street America are being gutted as taxes on the richest Americans are the lowest they’ve been in a generation. Yet many Americans may not know exactly how unfair this is, as the country has grown increasingly unequal at the same time. Using data from the CIA Factbook based on the Gini coefficient — a measure of income inequality within a society — ThinkProgress has assembled the following graph, which demonstrates that the United States is now about as economically unequal as Uganda and more unequal than countries like Pakistan or the Ivory Coast
Hooray America! Way to be the shining city on a hill…
Note: This ridiculous gif was on the signature line of an email from a friend who just deleted me on Facebook because of my pro-abortion quote spree. Underneath was written “LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT THE GREATEST COUNTRY ON EARTH.”
