Nicholas Kristof laments income “inequality”
In what amounts to a recurring theme among many New York Times columnists Nicholas Kristof laments economic “inequality” in the United States. Of course, he never looks at the underlying causes, never notes that the top 10 percent of wage earners pay almost 70 percent of all income taxes collected, and has only a single implied solution—income redistribution. But nonetheless, he’s horrified …
Kristof suggests that “stunning levels of inequality” are “profoundly unhealthy, for us and for our nation’s soul.”
I’d be naïve to suggest that everyone has an “equal” chance at success or that economic inequality doesn’t exist, but what does that matter? Life is not fair, and no matter how much NYT columnists rail against economic inequality, life never will be fair. Like it or not, income distribution follows the hated bell curve—there will always be haves and unfortunately, the harsh reality is there will always be have-nots.
The wonder of this country is that the children of the have-nots have a good chance to better their lives. As a young person in the United States, there is no caste system, nor is there any explicit aristocracy that limits how far you can go …