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People Who Need Rich People

Updated Jan. 5, 2013 2:40 a.m. ET

For the past few years, rich people have really been taking it on the chin. They don't pay enough in taxes. They hide their ill-gotten gains in mysterious bank accounts in the Cayman Islands. They use all kinds of extravagant loopholes to conceal income. Their greed, their miserliness, their abject refusal to pitch in and help are all that stand between the American people and the American dream.

Or so the story goes.

It seems...

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