Fwd: The Price of Taxing the Rich

From: larry.r.trout

'Nearly half of California's income taxes before the recession came from the top 1% of earners: households that took in more than $490,000 a year. High earners, it turns out, have especially volatile incomes—their earnings fell by more than twice as much as the rest of the population's during the recession. When they crashed, they took California's finances down with them..'

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704604704576220491592684626.html