在20世纪70年代后期,美国1%的最富家庭赚了国家总收入的9%,到2007年,最富的1%赚了国家总收入的23.5%。
In the late 1970s, the richest 1 percent of American families took in about 9 percent of the nation's total income; by 2007, the top 1 percent took in 23.5 percent of total income.
而现在我们完全不靠近拉弗国家。对于税收和总收入,升则升,降则降。
But we're nowhere near Laffer country now. In terms of taxes and revenue, up is up, down is down.
调查中利用了国家调查中的数据,对比了2001年到2006年中总收入中保险费用和日常的医疗支出。(去年的调查中这些数据还是可用的。)
The study used federal survey data to compare the cost of both insurance premiums and out-of-pocket health spending with gross incomes from 2001 to 2006-the last year for which data were available.
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