Well, another Presidential election is upon us -- and the battle cry from the left this election season will be “income inequality”. The Old NCO has been thinking about what that term means – specifically, what it means when we hear it from the likes of Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama or Bernie Sanders. Income Inequality sounds like such a bad thing. It evokes images of the poor and downtrodden masses struggling to survive while a small group of super rich people enjoy life to the fullest. That’s why it’s an easy sell to the uninformed, mindless droves of liberals. The leadership of the elite left teach their minions that rich people, especially conservative rich people, are evil. They would have you think that these rich people’s idea of fun is to throw rolls of quarters as hard as they can from the balconies of their penthouse apartments at groups of small hungry children in the street below begging for money to buy food.
So how would Hillary and company fix income inequality? Well, it’s what Barack Obama stated when he ran for President in 2008 in that he would “spread the wealth around”. It’s better known as redistribution of wealth – that’s where the government uses taxes to take from the rich and give it to the poor. The problem is who decides when there is enough redistribution accomplished to give us enough income equality? Hillary? Bernie? Do you continue to punish those who believe in Capitalism so you can promote the tenants of Socialism until everyone in America has the same income and wealth? For those that think this is a good idea, I hate to be the bearer of this truth – if you want to live in a country where everyone has the same amount of money and wealth, it already exists. Just pack up your stuff and move to North Korea.
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