As you can see from the chart, the actualdistribution of wealth is weighted heavily toward the top 20%, whereas most Americans would prefer to see the majority of wealth much more evenly distributed.
In a departure from previous holdings, the Tax Court disagreed with the IRS, holding that the distribution and contribution of the debt created actual economic consequences to the parties.
To see what was going on, Dr Hansen superimposed the actual curves for each decade from the fifties to the noughties on a normal distribution, which acted as a reference curve.