YES! There is no inequality crisis!
"The Gini coefficient [a measure of income INequality] for full-time workers increased [that is, became less "equal"] gradually through the 1960s, 1970, 1980s, and then stabilized in the mid-1990s (after rising from 34% in 1967 to 39.5% in 1994, see top chart) and hasn't changed at all in the sixteen-year period from 1994 (39.5%) to 2010 (39.7%)."
- Kevin L
"I do not believe that the power and duty of the general government ought to be extended to the relief of individual suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public service or benefit. A prevalent tendency to disregard the limited mission of this power and duty should, I think, be steadfastly resisted, to the end that the lesson should be constantly enforced that, though the people support the government, the government should not support the people." - Grover Cleveland, 1887
- Kevin L
I'm a sucker for analogies, like this one from this letter: "If all the traffic lights in Watertown were stuck on green, we’d hardly blame the drivers for the ensuing accidents. When government distorts the signals and incentives facing producers and consumers, the blame for the resulting disaster should fall on government not the private sector. "
- Kevin L
"For Democrats, millionaires are the new Gypsies—a minority whom it is perfectly acceptable to persecute because its wealth is allegedly ill-gotten, not the product of hard work." This!
- Kevin L