I'm not talking about owning luxury items. I'm talking about the relationship between high relative wealth and socio-political power.
Besides, wouldn't you argue that under current law in effect right now taxes the wealthiest excessively and unfairly? So logically, you are arguing for a system that would stop taxing them at a higher rate and therefore allow for a massive increase in the existing disparity.
So we aren't discussing the current situation in the U.S., we're actually talking about what it would look like if things were how you preferred, and the wealthy disparity was 10, 20 or 100 times greater than at present, with all that implies for the power ratio between rich and poor.
I'm not complaining that the poor don't have enough to eat (although last year 1 in 30 in the U.S. didn't have enough money to buy the minimum caloric intake) or whether they own cars.
I'm saying that when you have so much money compared to virtually everyone else that you can buy political power in bulk, things inevitably get slanted in your favour.
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Besides, wouldn't you argue that under current law in effect right now taxes the wealthiest excessively and unfairly? So logically, you are arguing for a system that would stop taxing them at a higher rate and therefore allow for a massive increase in the existing disparity.
So we aren't discussing the current situation in the U.S., we're actually talking about what it would look like if things were how you preferred, and the wealthy disparity was 10, 20 or 100 times greater than at present, with all that implies for the power ratio between rich and poor.
I'm not complaining that the poor don't have enough to eat (although last year 1 in 30 in the U.S. didn't have enough money to buy the minimum caloric intake) or whether they own cars.
I'm saying that when you have so much money compared to virtually everyone else that you can buy political power in bulk, things inevitably get slanted in your favour.