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Income Distribution:
Who Decides, Gains, and Pays?
This graph has been designed from the 1991 world bank statistics on NZ. The population has been divided into top 20% lower 20% and middle 60%.
The top 20% of the population grosses 46.9% of the nation’s income and coincidently make the decisions on how income shall be distributed. The lower 20% grosses only 2.7% of the nation’s income.
Arguments have been raised that the disparity between incomes is based on education. The slide show on taxes shows that it isn’t the education; But rather, that high-income people’s education is subsidised by the poor. So of course there are more wealthy that are educated.