# This Thread: Sanctuary from Healthcare Debate.\[Gen'l Fiscal views of Right & Left\]

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [March 27, 2010, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-sanctuary-from-healthcare-debate-genl-fiscal-views-of-right-left/533988 "2010-03-27T03:39:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Monocracy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monocracy/32/4493_2.png) [@Monocracy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monocracy)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2010, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-sanctuary-from-healthcare-debate-genl-fiscal-views-of-right-left/533988/41 "2010-03-30T22:45:34Z")

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> [@Sam\_Stone](#):
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> I didn’t say it followed from that. I was making a statement about the results of both tables. Again - 58% of the people in the bottom quintile in 1996 had moved up at least one quintile by 2005.
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> The importance of the 100% number is that is evidence that the move wasn’t just from the top of one quintile to the bottom of the other.

People’s incomes increase as they get older, so i would expect most people would move up to another quintile over a ten year period. Table 2 is much more accurate.

55% of lowest quintile stayed in the lowest, while 64% of the highest stayed in the highest. You can interpret that in may ways, but it seems to fall somewhere near the middle of the two extreme positions.

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**Author:** ![adhay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@adhay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhay)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-sanctuary-from-healthcare-debate-genl-fiscal-views-of-right-left/533988/42 "2010-04-03T14:16:02Z")

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> That doesn’t necessarily follow. Even if you redistributed all the money equally, at least some of the advantages bought with that money would remain.

Like owning a bank.

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