Inequality is the main topic of every post you've made. Sorry. You're advocating socialism.

Further, I never claimed to be published on *this* subject. I said that I have used very related statistics in my own work and I understand how this statistic is calculated and used. Second, these papers do not establish causality. They document correlation.

And now you're moving the goalposts, so I think we're finished here.

Research from some safe space means dick.
Let these great researchers live in the crime areas.
It isn't poor stealing from the rich or rich stealing from the poor.

It is a mentality of lawlessness and street justice.

No shit.  I should change the subject when people respond to what I've posted?  

I bet you can't demonstrate that.

Sounds like you've got it all figured out.

Yeah in multiple hands that have many different interests.  Not one single hand like the government.  2/3s of the fed budget is wealth redistribution as it is, not counting state, county, and local.

Taxing rich people will not end wealth inequality.

'wealth disparity' is the term that western liberals came up with when it was pointed out to them that the western (euro/american) 'poor' had a far higher standard of living than most humans in history, and most humans in the world today.

since it's hard to talk about poverty when the 'impoverished' have housing, vehicles, computers, cell phones, luxury food items, and too many calories, leftists had to change to another talking point.  what they chose was:

"sure you live better than almost everybody, but someone else lives better than you, so that makes you oppressed."

I think that he(a Liberal) misses the point.  There's a Moral Difference.  Liberals want to soak others for as much as they can and Conservatives want to keep their own labors and be left alone.

I my thoughts exactly, I haven’t heard anyone express this besides myself. Of course we aren’t talking about all peoples in this gen, but it’s the boomer gen for sure that has put us in this place. Soon it’ll be the next gens, and now is time, to see if this ship gets corrected. Haven’t thought of this before, but maybe that’s why we are in this great divide. The next gen is moving in and the boomers are kicking and screaming on the way out.

I’m as rust belt as rust belt can get and I live in NY.  My stepfather worked for Chrysler as did I for a bit.  I was born in the rust the rich kids only dream about.

I hate them.  I hate liberals. And I hate anyone who votes democrat.  They can take “VoTinG AgaiNSt TheIr SeLf InTerEST” and shove it up their ass

ETA: if you bought a Chrysler brand truck from 98-99 I helped make your transfer case

Yea. So let's make everyone equally poor then no one will be jealous and want to rob/hurt anyone else.

I’m not an economist, nor should I be the one to try and explain this, but here goes my thought on this wealth disparity. If I compare my economic status, mid to low middle class, versus the richest man in the US. And compare this to say Africa, a man in my similar position and the richest man in Africa. I’m sure a ratio can be done to show that the bigger difference would be here in the US. So I’m thinking, I live better than the Middle class African, so maybe it takes this kind of disparity, this kind of gap, to allow, afford, grant me these benefits. I’m better off than this other guy, but I live in a country that has a bigger wealth disparity. How can this be?

So again, it may take this amount of wealth above me in order to support all this middle class, of which I’m grateful to be in. Worked my ass off to get here. And yes I started with nothing but a rusted out S-10 pickup truck.  And I’ll be damn if I’ll walk quietly into the night as some fools decide I need to give it up, all in the name of fairness, f@%#$, fairness, there is no such thing, not in the spiritual world, not in this world, and not in the one to come. It does not exist, only fools seek it.

Yes - pay, and not just monetary terms.

The middle class is expected to pay with their freedoms, as well, for the benefit of the elite and their “pets” - their favored segments of society.

Oh and massive immigration from the third world literally drowns any possible “benefit” of socialism :taxing the rich, etc.
People *are* voting for their economic interests, when voting against that shit.

Well in truth those ultra financially wealthy folks do play a role... they like money so they start and run business to make more and thus employ other people. They like and buy things, sometimes even paying ludicrous amounts of money for art...which pays people. Yes the rich have money so the fuck what. That multi million dollar yacht they have.... well there are people whose families have a roof over their head, food, transportation and get to take vacations cause that guy with money bought that yacht.

Economic interests as defined by commies.   Fuck 'em.

Very well said, sadly many don't understand that is what they are doing with their "noble" ideas.

Well, I guess they could vote democrat so it could be cheaper through illegals.

how many of the ultra wealthy are ultra wealthy because of cronyism and barriers to entry? besides all the politicians

big business is fucking over the working class* too...but unlike the progressives, at least business is a bit less inclined to piss on them and calling it rain

*and white collars they can replace with H1Bs

Look, another dumb commie who can't understand basic economics

The longer you watch politicians the more you come to believe they use our taxes for toilet paper.

After a while everything they propose starts to look like a collosal waste.

Their decades of lies and duplicity tends to cause an immediate violent reaction whenever they propose anything at all.

This simply isn't so. The government's resources are the taxes they collect from us.

On their own they don't own a dime, don't produce a single product or make a profit on anything they do.

Their ability to bleed the population is their sole revenue source. When anyone asks the government for a service or benefit they do so at the expense of both their neighbors and themselves.

causation AND correlation!

Politics is complex and blanket statements are almost always wrong.

I do not believe that the Democrats or the Republicans are trying to destroy the middle class. Both parties are made up of a large segment of our population and there is a lot of opposing views by members within both parties.

Politics is a compromise. Because the two major parties are the only ones that really have a chance of getting elected, we are stuck choosing the lesser of two evils.

As a Libertarian leaning Republican I don't give a damn about overturning Roe v. Wade. As a Libertarian a completely reject that party's open borders immigration policy. I think all drugs should be legal for adults. Not because I think they are harmless, they aren't. I want the underworld driven out of business. I want taxes collected from drug manufacturers, their employees, pharmacies and the end consumer.

There are very few things the government is responsible for. They should concentrate on the necessary and nothing else.

1. Armed Forces capable of defeating any Invaders. Completely stationed inside our borders.

2. Law Enforcement to include Border Security. Federal Law enforcement should be limited to terrorist threats, counterfeiting, bank fraud, money laundering and smuggling.

3. Infrastructure maintenance to include communications, highways, bridges, airports, seaports and national parks

Social Security should be a stand alone program that they can't touch.

All other government responsibilities should fall to the states, the counties and local government. If your local government wants to introduce some nonsense you won't have that far to travel to make your voice heard

We should have half as many Representatives or less. With the limited responsibility why do we need so many?

Each State's Governor should also serve as that state's Senator. 50 Senators total.

Both parties have instituted policies that attack our wallets and common sense. This is the natural progression of things. Congress never abolished bad laws, they simply pile them higher and deeper.

You can't have a popularity contest every couple of years without a snake oil salesmen making promises to cheering crowds.  The end result of almost 250 years of this process should be perfectly clear to everyone by now.

Because being told fuck you, your religion, your guns, your gas guzzling truck, your heterosexual marriage you fucking racist white man oppressor.

But please vote for us in November because we have your best interests at heart. Is NOT how you get me to vote for you.

it's almost like they're not as smart as they think they are

don't forget: YoU sHoUlD LeArN tO CoDe...so your new job can be outsourced or given to a H1B