greatest illusion is that a healthy society can be organized around the single-minded pursuit of wealth," but isn't that what republicans have been telling us every day, pursuing single-mindedly the pursuit of wealth? >> it's even worse. what they're doing is pursuing a policy for the very richest people in this country, forgetting that there's the rest of america. it's quite shocking, actually. over the last 30 years, the income and wealth has been increasingly concentrated at the very top, but you have the republican party, which gives absolutely no recognition of this at all. and the democrats, as you know from the book, i'm not very happy with they're looking for gimmickry, less bad than the republicans, but nobody's talking seriously in washington about what's really going on. >> one of the most remarkable graphs, figures in your book is where you show that between 1981 and 2010, with low marginal tax rates, gdp actually fell and