"Over the past three decades, the distribution of income in America has become wildly out of whack. Despite an economy that's twice as large as it was 30 years ago, the bottom 90 percent of Americans remain stuck in the mud.
"If they're employed, they're earning on average only about $280 more a year than 30 years ago, adjusted for inflation.
"That's less than a 1 percent gain over more than a third of a century.
"Yet even as their share of the nation's total income has withered, the tax burden on average workers has grown.
"They're shelling out a far bigger chunk of incomes in payroll taxes, sales taxes and property taxes than 30 years ago.
"It's just the opposite for the superrich."
Wealthy Americans not paying fair share of taxes