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Article: A WEALTH OF CONFUSION ABOUT THE RICH

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October 30, 1990
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"Soak the rich."

"Let the rich pay."

So ran the dialogue last week as Congress' tax deliberations provoked the patrons of a thousand barbershops and taverns to mutterings of class war, American-style.

But there was a problem.

Nobody knew -- exactly -- who "the rich" were, or what they thought of them.

True, everybody had an opinion. And yes, the admiration, observation and contemplation of the rich persists as perhaps the central obsession of a society utterly entranced by television shows like "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous," magazines like Vanity Fair, and figures like the Claus von Bulow of the new movie "Reversal of Fortune."

Still, the fact remains that an ...

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