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To Each According to His Delusions

By Larry Thornberry

If income inequality is the problem, then income equality is the goal. From each according to his ability, to each according to his need, to coin a phrase (or to each according to his or her fanciful desires, if we are to adopt the Sandra Fluke addendum to the original Marx).

Are we to have a government committee to insure that the corporate CFO with the 10th floor corner office makes the same as the security guard sitting in the ground floor lobby? Should universities add what the full professor of women’s studies and the janitor in her building make and pay them both half the total? Should the guy who drives the studio limo make the same as Tom Hanks did on his last picture? Should the burger flipper at the corner McDonald’s make the same as the chef de cuisine at the Chez Pretense? On a more personal example of blatant income inequality, Obama, with his presidential salary and other sources of income, fetches in a multiple of what I make. Will he be sending me a check to equalize things between us? I won’t hold my breath.

I’ve asked a couple of liberal friends if they thought income inequality was a serious issue today. Predictably they said it was. Just as predictably they were less then lucid in explaining what it meant. One suggested that it had to do with the disappearing American middle class and what he called extremes of wealth and poverty in America. If the Democrats get very far with this argument, it will be, once again, because inept and pusillanimous Republicans allow them to. To the extent that the great American middle class has gone missing, it’s because of high taxation, hyper-regulation, and other toxic policies — brought to us by guess who? — that continue to shackle the American economy.

A few more years under policies brought about by those who whine about income inequality and we’ll have real income equality. All of us will be bringing in next to nothing.

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