Via Forbes: Six Waltons Have More Wealth Than the Bottom 30 % of Americans.
(No doubt one has to be of a certain age to get the ref).
Headline Reaction: That’s a Far Cry from John Boy
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@James Joyner: True.
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“I think we all know what Mr. Goldberg wants us to make of it, it’s a telling indictment of American wealth inequality, the world’s going to the dogs and something must be done about rising inequality.”
Let’s see now. One reason the late Sam Walton’s estate and his surviving kin have all this money is that countless American consumers have voluntarily redistributed their own wealth by walking into Walmart, digging into their pockets and giving it to them!
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@ponce: I didn’t need to know that.
