A message to those who think that someday they will benefit from GOP upper tax rates.

[TBF]

69. Yup, I agree completely. I think I had more of a chance than many because I grew up in the 70s

and only took out the loans for grad school (in the past 15 years - not under old rates). Wages are stagnated, unions are decimated, smarter kids decide to go to college but it's much more expensive now, the list goes on and on ... And you have to go back nearly 100 years (to the 1920s) or so to find a gap so wide between the rich and poor. I blame that squarely on Reagan, who started the tinkering with the capital gains tax rates.

I don't think this is the fault of individual habits either. Many of us are great savers, others could probably learn to live within their means a little better -- BUT when we are dealing with the fact that 1% of the country controls 40% of the wealth there isn't all that much to divvy up between the remaining 60%. It's clearly a systemic problem.