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The Big, Long, 30-Year Conservative Lie

99 Percenters

Inequality, conservatives insist, is natural. Trying to combat it will slow growth. Well, guess who now says otherwise? Standard and Poor’s.

Monica Potts
Monica Potts
articles/2014/08/08/the-big-long-30-year-conservative-lie/140807-potts-inequality-tease_r2un3d
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Monica Potts

Monica Potts

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