Caroljo
Senator
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Unity requires a commitment to equality of opportunity that has been steadily declining for the past forty years. Until the richest 1% of Americans are barred from bribing politicians for advantageous tax and trade policies, national unity will be impossible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_inequality_in_the_United_States#Effect_on_democracy
"A 2014 study by researchers at Princeton and Northwestern concludes that government policies reflect the desires of the wealthy, and that the vast majority of American citizens have 'minuscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy . . . when a majority of citizens disagrees with economic elites and/or with organized interests, they generally lose.'[60]"
And the inequality has only gotten worse with Obama in office....
The rich get richer, and the poor get...
Incomes for the top 1 percent jumped 37 percent from 2009 to 2015, reaching roughly $1.4 million last year. While the bottom 99 percent saw gains, they were relatively paltry in comparison -- a 7.6 percent increase during the same period helped lift the average income to $48,800 last year.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/inequality-1-percent-99-percent-income-growth/