[DetroitVelvetSmooth]

I'm certainly redistributionist in where I think economic policy should be headed, given where the resources of the nation have been flowing (generally) for the last 90 years. I think one of the most important things we need to do is level the playing field in education and in health care. Children born in lower class families (the number of which continues to increase) should have as much invested in their education as the far less numerous privileged children. The health-care debate is obv complex, but few would argue that it is fine the way it is, and that the (once again, growing) lower class is not getting affordable, comprehensive medical care.

There are fewer and fewer "big winners" in the American economy, and more overworked and underpaid families decade by decade. Though the rich of the country feel they deserve their money because they worked hard for it, it is not as if they are working harder than people I work with in the restaurant industry, or any other blue-collar job. The issue of how the government spends this tax money is also important here. Have you ever looked at where exactly the tax money goes? Here, at least, Libertarians have a point. It is being mismanaged, for sure. However, that is a reason to increase transparency and aggressively reform spending, not a reason to deem government spending of any type unnecessary. In the libertarians' world, the power of those who control large swaths of capital would be EVEN MORE unchecked.

The founders of the republic, by the way, had no contemporaneous analog for the kind of wealth disparity that exists today. Let that sink in before you make claims about their intentions vis-a-vis economic regulations, tariffs, income tax etc...

Another thing, if you make more than 200,000 dollars a year, and you think you "totally deserve it", you better be doing something spectacular with your work. Otherwise you're overpaid and might want to take a look in the mirror. By the way, looking the right way, saying the right things, and knowing the right people is not spectacular. Its tragically average. But the pay is good, amirite?

I'm not anti-wealth or anything, I'm trying to get rich just like everyone else. But these people that think that they are special and deserve 10x more than others, just because they have in fact obtained it, are the worst people ever. (Trust me, I worked as a landscaper in Hinsdale, IL for a year in college, and these people think they're pretty great.) And if you elect libertarians its gonna get worse. If people make tons of cash, good for them. The country they live in has lots of problems and is gonna need that cash to solve them.