Inequality

Anyone who thinks that Americans making more than $250,000.00 per year need a tax cut, needs to read this series in Slate.

But according to the Central Intelligence Agency (whose patriotism I hesitate to question), income distribution in the United States is more unequal than in Guyana, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, and roughly on par with Uruguay, Argentina, and Ecuador. Income inequality is actually declining in Latin America even as it continues to increase in the United States. Economically speaking, the richest nation on earth is starting to resemble a banana republic.

I'm not suggesting Robin Hood here, but it does feel like we're going a bit backward in time to feudalism. I'm offering myself up for serfdom, if anyone can afford it.