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The income graph is true, but what he neglects to tell you is:
Since 99% of Americans can only afford to pay $2 for a loaf of bread, bread will never be more than $2, even if the top 1% had $1,000,000,000,000,000
The income graph is true, but what he neglects to tell you is:
Since 99% of Americans can only afford to pay $2 for a loaf of bread, bread will never be more than $2, even if the top 1% had $1,000,000,000,000,000
Also, a poor person today has a living standard that far surpasses that of a king just 50 or so years ago in many respects.
The average poor person in America has a computer with Internet, a TV, a dishwasher, a car, air conditioning, central heating, a washer/dryer, and a cell phone that has more memory on it than could be filled in an entire room a few decades ago.
I'd rather have the America-style inequality where the difference between the poor and the rich is at it is now rather than some socialist hellhole where the difference between the poorest/richest members of a village is a rusted out bike, a few sacks of rice, and a good pair of shoes.
Income inequality is the result of effort inequality. Equalizing outcomes is akin to discouraging success.
If you want to go with the redistributionist route to try to reduce this inequality, then enjoy watching your country turn out like North Korea, Zimbabwe, Greece, and the dozens of other hell-holes that tried your leftist policies.
Income inequality is the result of effort inequality. Equalizing outcomes is akin to discouraging success.
Why do YOU think it's communist?
Were you being ironic or do you really not understand the word "communism" -- in terms of political theory and history.