Greg - There has been massive wealth redistribution in the last 40 years, but it hasn't been from the wealthy to the working or poor people. It has been from the average American upward toward the already obscenely rich. Before his recent mis-steps, Elon Musk was worth more than $250 billion. That's more than 250,000 millionaires combined! There are an elite class of multi-billionaires today, while the average workers make approximately the same in inflation-corrected dollars as they did 40 years ago. Given the skyrocketing GDP, where did all the additional billions & billions of dollars produced since 1981 go? They went right to the top.Economist Frederic Bastiat said in 1850, "When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living in society, they create for themselves, in the course of time, a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it."When asked why Republicans always campaign on issues & promises to help the ordinary Americans, but never deliver once in office, Eisenhower's Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, answered "... somehow we find it hard to sell our values, namely that the rich should plunder the poor."Republicans since Reagan keep showering corporations & the rich with massive permanent tax cuts & only temporary token cuts to the average workers. Each cut is followed NOT by increased gov't revenues, as the GOP promised, but by a recession as our debt rose. Redistribution of wealth upward is ok, just not downward!

Greg - There has been massive wealth redistribution in the last 40 years, but it hasn't been from the wealthy to the working or poor people. It has been from the average American upward toward the already obscenely rich. Before his recent mis-steps, Elon Musk was worth more than $250 billion. That's more than 250,000 millionaires combined! There are an elite class of multi-billionaires today, while the average workers make approximately the same in inflation-corrected dollars as they did 40 years ago. Given the skyrocketing GDP, where did all the additional billions & billions of dollars produced since 1981 go? They went right to the top.Economist Frederic Bastiat said in 1850, "When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living in society, they create for themselves, in the course of time, a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it."When asked why Republicans always campaign on issues & promises to help the ordinary Americans, but never deliver once in office, Eisenhower's Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, answered "... somehow we find it hard to sell our values, namely that the rich should plunder the poor."Republicans since Reagan keep showering corporations & the rich with massive permanent tax cuts & only temporary token cuts to the average workers. Each cut is followed NOT by increased gov't revenues, as the GOP promised, but by a recession as our debt rose. Redistribution of wealth upward is ok, just not downward!

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