So, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. This has been going on for 40 years or more.Conservatives don't want to "use government to distribute income upwards". That's a farcical notion.
We do, however, object to federal and state confiscation of personal property as a sole means of redistribution in the name of an artificiallly contrived socialist collective.
You both are off your rockers.
The disparity of wealth in this country hasn't been this bad since the 1928.
If you're blind ask the nanny-state to find a reader for you, if you're not blind-----pull your head out, spit out the kool-aid and pay attention to the historical disparity of wealth record.
In 2007, the share of after-tax income going to the top 1 percent hit its highest level (17.1 percent) since 1979, while the share going to the middle one-fifth of Americans shrank to its lowest level during this period (14.1 percent).
Between 1979 and 2007, average after-tax incomes for the top 1 percent rose by 281 percent after adjusting for inflation an increase in income of $973,100 per household compared to increases of 25 percent ($11,200 per household) for the middle fifth of households and 16 percent ($2,400 per household) for the bottom fifth.
If all groups after-tax incomes had grown at the same percentage rate over the 1979-2007 period, middle-income households would have received an additional $13,042 in 2007 and families in the bottom fifth would have received an additional $6,010.
In 2007, the average household in the top 1 percent had an income of $1.3 million, up $88,800 just from the prior year; this $88,800 gain is well above the total 2007 income of the average middle-income household ($55,300).