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will be restricted to values of income not smaller than Wo 
the unit of income and wealth. In other words, the income 
distribution will conform to the Pareto problem only for 
values of income above Wo; this may 3erve to explain why the 
income distributions are usually much less Pareto-conform than 
the wealth distributions, starting to become straight lines only 
near the top of the income distribution while the wealth dis 
tribution is straight for almost the whole range of taxable 
wealth