Income Inequality: Difference between revisions
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shares an overarching goal: To ensure that all citizens are represented in the halls of power. For four decades, we | shares an overarching goal: To ensure that all citizens are represented in the halls of power. For four decades, we | ||
have proudly championed citizen interests before Congress, the executive branch agencies and the courts | have proudly championed citizen interests before Congress, the executive branch agencies and the courts | ||
=====We’re talking about inequality all wrong===== | |||
[https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/were-talking-about-inequality-all-wrong by Laurence Kotlikoff 18/3/16 PBS NEWS] | |||
Democrats claim higher taxes on the rich and more benefits for the poor are the best ways to reduce inequality. Republicans argue what we really need is more growth, accomplished by lowering taxes to spur work and investment with, it seems, benefit cuts to make up lost revenue. | |||
