My income is inequal to Trump’s. I demand justice.
(really need the /s?)
A manufactured non-problem.
I worked 3 jobs to put myself through school. Got a job and worked my tail off and I now making great money.
If someone chooses NOT to go to school, but rather, hang out at a low paying job, why should they be entitled to MY hard fought success?
Let's call it what it really is :AMBITION INEQUALITY
99% of us are born equal...that is where equality ends.
Personally, I think anyone who accepts any transfer payment (welfare, food stamps, etc.) must show up everyday at 7AM at a public place and wash floors, sweep streets, clean toilets, etc. I think this workfare system would truly define those who need help versus those who are just getting a free ride.
I also think that, if you don't pay Federal income taxes, you don't vote in Federal elections. Same for state and local. After all, nothing in the game, why should you have a voice in the rules?
I worked very hard to achieve “income inequality”. My job was physically taxing and involved rotating shifts and unpleasant work conditions but good pay. Literally anyone physically fit and available for work could have gotten the job (i.e. The job was available to most) Most people gave it a pass - that was free choice.
I guess now I’ll have to listen to Nancy Pelosi or Obama about how I “didn’t earn that”.
“Income inequality” in other countries (Brazil, for example) is far worse in other countries than it is in the United States.
It is also more difficult to measure “income inequality” in those countries because (a) they don’t collect as much information about it, (b) their collection system is corrupt and vulnerable to “adjustment” for political reasons, and (c) their wealthiest elites receive much of their goodies in the form of privileges that are unavailable to the unconnected, thereby removing the price mechanism from the transaction; this means that their advantages can’t really be quantified, in many cases.
We all have different aptitudes, different responses to different incentives & inhibitors; different perspectives, focus, objective, motivations, etc.. The very notion that income inequality is a problem reflects a dearth of reason on the subject of human achievement.
Conservatives need to stop allowing "politically correct" bullies to intimidate dissent from Collectivist/Egalitarian efforts to tear down our culture of achievement. Understand the neurotic compulsion they have employed to control the susceptible; understand that it is not a rational thing; not an idealistic thing; not an altruistic thing.
See Compassion Or Compulsion?.
This is the same compulsion that justifies our loony immigration policy; our bull in a china closet efforts at "nation building"; our insane Federal meddling in local education, law enforcement, health care, and the social re-engeneering of local communities.
On the one hand they question whether or not income inequality is a bad thing.
On the other hand they blame the Left for income inequality.
This is a collection of talking points that doesn’t know what it wants to be when it grows up!
One word: MYTH
Economic inequality is less extreme under freedom of competition and opportunity, and free market in labor, than under coercion and government interventionism.
Income inequality is the gas that runs the engine of the economy.
Without it there is no productive work.
Actually “income inequality” is a leftist canard because it does not include the value of government transfer payments (i.e. welfare, Section 8 housing, etc.) When the value of such payments is included, inequality hasn’t changed in many decades.
Income inequality is but one attribute of the inequality among people.
If you lack brains, initiative, education, you are going to have unequal income.
If there are large cultural groups with unequal income, it can be taken as a fact that those people are unequal in other very important ways.( In spite of what stephen J gould preaches)
“What he is saying is that he would rather the poor be poorer, provided the rich were less rich. That is the liberal policy.”
“Once they start to talk about the gap, they would rather that the gap were that [indicating a small gap] down here [indicating low], not this [indicating a larger gap] but [indicating a smaller gap]. So long as the gap is smaller, they would rather have the poor poorer. One does not create wealth and opportunity that way.”
— Margaret Thatcher
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okHGCz6xxiw