“Last year the Rand Corporation (of all people) produced an incredible study that estimated that tax and benefit policy changes since 1980, if you counterfactually regress everything back to 1980, and say if nothing had changed: what would the income and wealth distribution look like? Their estimate is that 36 trillion worth of income and wealth has been vacuumed up to the top one percent since 1980 –simply because of tax and benefit changes.” Mark Blythe, Economist Brown University