Why are you linking to your blog when the article is available at Mackinac.org — which you cited as the source, but linked to your blog? Are you the original author?
Here’s the CORRECT link to this article at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy:
The Rich Are Getting Richer; So Are the Poor
http://www.mackinac.org/15970
Of course they are, corporate fascism (Also known as “Socialism” aka “Crony Capitalism”) keeps tightening the noose on competition until only a few large corporations will exist that the government can easily take over. There are so many regulations the little guy can no longer open a business and make something worthwhile and compete—legally. So the reality is most people will become serfs in homes they cannot afford (artificially high in price through regulation and subsidy), paying student loans, artificially high (through subsidy, ala Pell Grant), and working for a mega corporation (usually receiving subsidy, like GE, bank bailouts, etc.), until all the small businessmen become an afterthought. It’s already happeneing at an ever-accelerating pace.
So, lets just tax the rich for more money and give the poor the money that the rich are being taxed for.
After all, it's strait out of the communist manifesto.
Question: Do you EVER leave comment when you post things here? On your posting history I see NOTHING, but links to your blog. You could at least stick around for a bit and engage in discussions, but I’m guessing that’s not your goal in posting...
I’m not one to usually complain about this, but given the fact that you cite the source as the MIPP and then link to your blog behind that title is rather odd, and strikes me as being VERY deceptive — THAT is what upset me, personally.
Also, this isn’t exactly “news” as it’s an EDITORIAL/OPINION column.
“The Rich Are Getting Richer; So Are the Poor”
Great news for the poor; they are getting richer too.
The Bush boomlet certainly helped the lowest fifth income bracket, almost doubling its income, if I read this correctly. Some of the very, very poor got poorer but it’s not clear if this is the same people or different people, and if this is largely an illegale issue.
The politics of “naked disparity” is simply the politics of envy. Classical liberals (which is what today’s conservatism essentially is) do not care about these disparities at all, but they care about whether the extreme low end, that got there by no fault of their own, has a tolerable life. And they usually do, in fact they look filthy rich compared to, say, Calcutta’s poor. Not all shared wealth entails forced redistribution by government. Some of it entails the miracle of markets.
This just proves that you can manipulate numbers to whatever way you agree. What does it matter anyway. We will always have rich folks and we will always have poor folks. Even if everyone had a job and we had 0 unemployment, we would still have poor. No matter how much we all make, there will always be a “last place”.
To be poor in America is to be poor by choice. There isn’t ANYTHING in America today, bad economy notwithstanding, that is an obstacle for gaining even a modicum of a decent life through a good job or working two jobs(as I do). People from all over the world come here because they know here is the better life they dream of. People don’t leave poor countries to come to America to continue to live in poverty. “Poor’’ in America is a crock.