Income inequality exploded under Biden/Harris.
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Greenbeard
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The claim might be right, but:
1) Wealth and income aren't the same thing, and
2) Understanding whether inequality increased at minimum requires knowing what the corresponding figures for the other 99% of the population are.
1) Wealth and income aren't the same thing, and
2) Understanding whether inequality increased at minimum requires knowing what the corresponding figures for the other 99% of the population are.
rightwinger
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A Conservative is concerned about income inequality?
rightwinger
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You are such a humanitarian being upset about income inequality
Your mother must be so proud of you
DonGlock26
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The Democrats are the party of the elites. The MAGA Republicans are the party of the working and middle classes.
1srelluc
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Why am I supposed to care?
Greenbeard
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Building the case to soak the rich.
The Sage of Main Street
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Preppy Progressives Are Unconscious Agents of the Class They Were Born In
The RichKid Reich's right hand does know what its left hand is doing. The Left purposely goes to disgusting extremes in order to trick us into over-reacting by giving the Right too much leeway. Agents-provocateurs are a time-tested trick of ambidextrous oligarchs. This anti-Populist form of government forces us to choose all of one or all of the other.
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Imagine thinking there is a 'left' in the US.
1srelluc
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The rich are not gonna soak themselves.....Look at the net worth of most US Senators and House leadership.
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Inflation is the cruelest of taxes because the poor suffer the most.
DonGlock26
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No doubt about it.
Winston
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Where there is anything like an equal distribution of wealth—that is to say, where there is general patriotism, virtue, and intelligence—the more democratic the government the better it will be; but where there is gross inequality in the distribution of wealth, the more democratic the government the worse it will be; for, while rotten democracy may not in itself be worse than rotten autocracy, its effects upon national character will be worse. To give the suffrage to tramps, to paupers, to men to whom the chance to labor is a boon, to men who must beg, or steal, or starve, is to invoke destruction. To put political power in the hands of men embittered and degraded by poverty is to tie firebrands to foxes and turn them loose amid the standing corn; it is to put out the eyes of a Samson and to twine his arms around the pillars of national life.
1srelluc
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Where there is anything like an equal distribution of wealth—that is to say, where there is general patriotism, virtue, and intelligence—the more democratic the government the better it will be; but where there is gross inequality in the distribution of wealth, the more democratic the government the worse it will be; for, while rotten democracy may not in itself be worse than rotten autocracy, its effects upon national character will be worse. To give the suffrage to tramps, to paupers, to men to whom the chance to labor is a boon, to men who must beg, or steal, or starve, is to invoke destruction. To put political power in the hands of men embittered and degraded by poverty is to tie firebrands to foxes and turn them loose amid the standing corn; it is to put out the eyes of a Samson and to twine his arms around the pillars of national life.
I don't know if you have been paying attention but there have always winners and losers in that regard.
Back in the day a millionaire to a person making $1.50 and hour was in the same rarified air as the billionaire of today.
The only difference today is you have social safety nets.....And what is the first thing these NGOs hand them....A smart phone so they can funnel their dissatisfaction on Tic-Toc and the like.
You can't zoom me, it's all about the grift.
Winston
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Seriously. You mean all those Trump voters were upset that the rich got richer? The net worth of Joe Biden's cabinet is less than 120 million dollars. If all of Trump's nominees are approved the net worth of Trump's cabinet will exceed 20 billion dollars. And when you throw in those that don't have to go through Senate confirmation, the networth of Trump's team exceeds 450 billion dollars.
I mean if you seriously believe a bunch of billionaires are going to be looking out for anyone other than themselves I got a bridge to sell you.
The type of modern growth is the great city. Here are to be found the greatest wealth and the deepest poverty. And it is here that popular government has most clearly broken down. In all the great American cities there is to-day as clearly defined a ruling class as in the most aristocratic countries of the world. Its members carry wards in their pockets, make up the slates for nominating conventions, distribute offices as they bargain together, and—though they toil not, neither do they spin—wear the best of raiment and spend money lavishly. They are men of power, whose favor the ambitious must court and whose vengeance he must avoid. Who are these men? The wise, the good, the learned—men who have earned the confidence of their fellow-citizens by the purity of their lives, the splendor of their talents, their probity in public trusts, their deep study of the problems of government? No; they are gamblers, saloon keepers, pugilists, or worse, who have made a531 trade of controlling votes and of buying and selling offices and official acts. They stand to the government of these cities as the Prætorian Guards did to that of declining Rome. He who would wear the purple, fill the curule chair, or have the fasces carried before him, must go or send his messengers to their camps, give them donatives and make them promises. It is through these men that the rich corporations and powerful pecuniary interests can pack the Senate and the bench with their creatures. It is these men who make School Directors, Supervisors, Assessors, members of the Legislature, Congressmen. Why, there are many election districts in the United States in which a George Washington, a Benjamin Franklin or a Thomas Jefferson could no more go to the lower house of a State Legislature than under the Ancient Régime a base-born peasant could become a Marshal of France. Their very character would be an insuperable disqualification.
Winston
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I think you need to read some more Henry George. From my first quote,
general patriotism, virtue, and intelligence
Those ships have sailed.
Even the accidents of hereditary succession or of selection by lot, the plan of some of the ancient republics, may sometimes place the wise and just in power; but in a corrupt democracy the tendency is always to give power to the worst. Honesty and patriotism are weighted, and unscrupulousness commands success. The best gravitate to the bottom, the worst float to the top, and the vile will only be ousted by the viler. While as national character must gradually assimilate to the qualities that win power, and consequently respect, that demoralization of opinion goes on which in the long panorama of history we may see over and over again transmuting races of freemen into races of slaves.
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