>Whatever system you go with the one we now have where a lot of people are having a very hard time but the rich are getting richer could be described as broken.
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>http://www.product-reviews.net/2010/09/23/forbes-rich-list-2010-are-the-rich-really-getting-richer/

Let's see... 249 billion, divided by 300 million (people in the US), is $830 per capita. IOW, that's as much as they got from everybody else.