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@qwesley referenced income inequality is my #1 domestic issue. I care about the economy very much. I think it should be fundamentally restructured so that workers get more of the fruits of their labor that the owners hoard. Thanks Bernie.
Climate change, healthcare, foreign policy, social justice, the economy. Yes.
Inequality is as natural as procreation.
However, I am for continual improvement which also comes naturally overtime via lessons learned over the course of successes and failure. Human society is merely ten thousand years old give or take. Modern developed western civilization as we know it and our economic systems are a couple of thousand years old max...2,020 years to be exact I suppose...give or take depending on who, what, when, and where you consider as the origins...
Regardless, we're young in the grand scheme of things. Sharks have been around for about a half a billion...lions half a million...
Though there will never be perfect and total equality as that is just not how nature's grand design works. There are some ways to improve the gap.
Simple math. If Nike brings all their jobs overseas back to the states, Phil Knight pays more in overhead, benefits, capital expenditures, land, taxes, etc...thus many people see an increase in wealth while Phil Knight sees an increase in expenses.
Now multiply that by the thousands of companies and hundreds of thousands of jobs that have gone overseas over the last 3-4 decades...that would change the course of this country forever.
Basically, a total recall of jobs and industries.
You would probably also have to have mandatory employment for all those who are mentally and physically able. I'll never understand single-income households in which there are two very capable adults and often times both probably think they should have more money and the wealthy should have less. Hey here's an idea, the one who's not working go get a job and increase the income of the house while at the same time draining the overhead of whoever it is writing the checks where you work.
Also, you would have to get most everyone off of the government teet save police, fire, teachers, military, etc...basically essential government personnel for the running, maintenance, protection of the country...
First, government paychecks aren't going to close the wealth gap. Second, entitlements via taxpayer increase the wealth gap.
less bloated government = more people forced into the private sector getting paid well because all those jobs came back from overseas and it's a laborer's market = wealth gap shrinking
fewer people on teet (employees and unemployed dependents) = fewer taxes needed = more take-home pay for the masses of taxpayers = shrinking that wealth gap