[CIB-173RDABN]

This is a trick question and not worth answering.

[ClearCase_guy]

I don't see it as a trick question. It gets to the heart of the two basic political philosophies.

The Left doesn't care if there are poor people -- they just want everyone to be at the same level.
The Rigth doesn't care if some people have more success than others -- they just want a viable path out of poverty.

[Rodamala]

“Would you rather pimp my blog or be in before the Zot?”

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Article 1 Section 8. The Congress shall have power . . . To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries

There is no way to enforce equality of result without imposing tyrannical limitations on the ambitious. And such limitations would be felt first in the loss of initiative for progress, so progress would wither on the vine. Worse, as Tom Peters’ In Search of Excellence instructs us, failure to try to progress does not merely stagnate but will actually reverse progress.

[DPMD]

Who controls the language controls the debate. Let’s agree that income equality, as with every form of legislated “equality” means the lowering of all income so that we are all equally miserable in our collective income level.

So try rephrasing the question so that it seems legitimate.