The top 400 taxpayers in the United States, representing the top 0.0003 percent of all 140 million individual income tax returns filed in 2009, claimed 12 percent of all capital gains that benefited from reduced tax rates.

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• Person: Not available Organization: Center for American Progress
  How the Government Subsidizes Wealth Inequality

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• How the Government Subsidizes Wealth Inequality www.americanprogress.org Center for American Progress via serper

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