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In article <87zithw4cu.fsf@garlic.com>,
 Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> wrote:

> The economist Joseph Stiglitz has argued that rent-seeking contributes
> significantly to income inequality in the United States through lobbying
> for government policies that let the wealthy and powerful get income,
> not as a reward for creating wealth, but by grabbing a larger share of
> the wealth that would otherwise have been produced without their
> effort.[28][29] Piketty, Saez, and Stantcheva have analyzed
> international economies and their changes in tax rates to conclude that
> much of income inequality is a result of rent-seeking among wealthy tax
> payers.[30]

Rent seeking *AND* tax breaks.

-- 
 To terrify children with the image of hell,
 to consider women an inferior creation is that good for the world?  
  Christopher Hitchens

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