Interesting chart. Notice how the income of the rich shot up during the Clinton Administration and then took a nosedive when George W. Bush took office. It only started to increase again when Bush started "reaching across the aisle" and implemented more liberal policies. Thanks for the update!
LMAO!! You're in the bubble. Look closely and you'll see that as soon as Bush's second tax cuts kicked in in 2003 the upward movement gained momentum. All the downward motion was due to the Clinton policies which actually bought back nearly $400 billion of debt for the first time since we paid off the debts remaining after the 2nd world war.
So why did the income of the rich shoot up during the Clinton Administration?
The dot com bubble.