Inequality Is No Accident

There is a vast economic equality in the United States today, and it needs to be fixed. But every time someone brings that up, the rich (and their lackeys in the GOP) start whining about class warfare. The truth is that there is a class warfare, and it began about three decades ago, when the Republicans began instituting their "trickle-down" economic policy -- a policy that allowed the rich to get richer by not sharing productivity gains with the rest of the population, and by shifting the tax burden from the rich to the middle class. This must be reversed, because it is killing our democracy -- and turning it into a plutocracy.