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# A Look at the Numbers: How the Rich Get Richer
- URL: https://jasontucker.blog/a-look-at-the-numbers-how-the-rich-get-richer/
- Published: 2006-10-24T12:29:26.000Z
- Updated: 2006-10-24T12:29:26.000Z
- Author: Jason Tucker
- Tags: #wordpress

[A Look at the Numbers: How the Rich Get Richer](http://www.motherjones.com/news/exhibit/2006/05/perks%5Fof%5Fprivilege.html?ref=jasontucker.blog)

ONLY ESTATES worth more than $1.5 million are taxed. That’s less than 1% of all estates. Still, repealing the estate tax will cost the government at least $55 billion a year.

ONLY 3% OF STUDENTS at the top 146 colleges come from families in the bottom income quartile; only 10% come from the bottom half.

BUSH’S TAX CUTS GIVE a 2-child family earning $1 million an extra $86,722—or Harvard tuition, room, board, and an iMac G5 for both kids.

A 2-CHILD family earning $50,000 gets $2,050—or 1/5 the cost of public college for one kid.

THIS YEAR, Donald Trump will earn $1.5 million an hour to speak at Learning Annex seminars.