The problem I see with the “wealth gap issues” is, what can you possibly do to reverse the trend? The only way I can see the trend reversing is if you start taxing wealth dramatically and distribute that tax to everyone else.
As you can see, under both republicans and democrats, the top 5% have been doing extremely well. The 4th and 3rd Quintile did pretty well as well.
The way I see it is, you can try and have an equal playing field, but you can’t guarantee an equal result. There will always be smarter people and dumber people. There will always be lucky people and unlucky people. I can go on and on about different circumstances that will affect the outcome. The point is, there are just too much variables that affect the outcome for you to try and control the outcome. Unless you wait for the outcome to happen and then come in and do a wealth redistribution.
