The Reason

The top 1% of households in the United States control 33% of the wealth of this nation, and the top 10% control 70% of the wealth. Meanwhile, The bottom 50% of households control a meager 1%. This must be corrected and attempts to gradually “trickle down” wealth have failed, because you and I can’t afford an army of lobbyists and lawyers to write tax laws and regulations and then find ways to evade those same laws. As such, we need a simple, comprehensive redistribution of wealth. Not one that removes all incentive for hard work, but one that assures no person can rise so far that they become above the law and no person can fall so far that they become utterly destitute. The free market is a mighty machine for generating wealth just like the automobile is a mighty machine for transportation, but in both cases we need to make sure they’re taking us where we need to go, not running us over.