Gee... could it be that Trickle Down economics that we've enshrined ever since the 1980's just doesn't work? Could it be that shifting the tax burden from the highest income levels and putting more of it on the lower and middle income tax payers just might have been a bad idea? Nah... couldn't be... must just be a coincidence. Look out - here come all the replies about how any effort to correct this is "socialist" and such. (And yet they seem surprised and just can't figure out why Obama is winning... funny that)
IAmKowalski Reviewed by IAmKowalski on . US wealth gap among world's highest US wealth gap among world's highest Thu, 23 Oct 2008 08:26:00 GMT A UN report has warned that the high rate of inequality in American cities could cause widespread social unrest and increased mortality. The annual State of the World's cities report from UN-Habitat, found that New York was the ninth most unequal city in world, the Guardian reported on Thursday. Atlanta, New Orleans, Washington, and Miami were not far behind, with rankings similar to those of the Kenyan capital Nairobi, Rating: 5