Since independence in 1976, per capita output in this Indian Ocean archipelago has expanded to roughly seven times the pre-independence, near-subsistence level, moving the island into the upper-middle incomegroup of countries.
True, the original customer base of Dollar General was the price-conscious low incomegroup, but it has since expanded its appeal to the middle-class families with its more varied assortment of products readily available at its stores.
That means altogether the bottom 60% of income earners, which includes the middle class, paid less than 0% of total federal individual income taxes as a group on net.