Americans know wealth inequality is a problem, but what does it look like?

[WhoIsNumberNone]

[ck4829]

1. K&R

[lambchopp59]

2. Dammit, there's the creep at 4 minutes calling fairer distribution "socialism"

And using the RW media scare tactic "everyone gets the same" bullshit just to worm out of paying his fare share of the collective welfare. There's the sort of bastard I want to go totally postal on.
I've attempted to get the wealth inequality picture through to some of my older boomer family, just to have them respond "that's not fair to the rich then"... Dammit, they paid less taxes than we do!
They are crooks, plain and simple. They've bought the congress so they don't foot the bill for anything. We do.
I'm so glad to see a national media outlet finally addressing this.

[ancianita]

3. The biggest wealth hoarders scream socialsm about wealth taxation all the time.

They use the wealth hiding system (within landbases like the US as much on islands) known as “offshoring” wealth — detaching assets, through complex layers of ownership and legal planning, from their actual owners, often by hiding them in another country.

Created electronically by lawyers, accountants and private bankers,
-- sometimes conveyed by ship and private plane, and
-- operating out of a global archipelago of European principalities,
-- -- former British colonies and
-- -- Asian city-states ...

the system has one main purpose: to make the richest people in the world appear to own as little as possible.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Goodness is CBS experiencing a revival?

Thought they'd gone all rat wing a la PJ O'Rourke

[BlueWI]

5. Great job on the graphics!

This issue is still undersold by Democrats not named Yang, Sanders, or Warren, and Republicans have no pro-Main Street policies at all. How long can we afford to put out cliches about the benefits of general economic growth when the wealth division is so stark?