While income inequality has a negative effect on the economy and society on a wide scale, we often seem to overlook the effect it has on a small and local scale. Throughout the history of the United States, the gap of wealth distribution between the top 10 percent, especially the top 1 percent and the rest of the income earners has increased dramatically, most significantly since the mid- 20 th century. Seemingly since the wages have gone increasingly higher for the 1 percent of wealth owners, the middle and lower classes earnings have been stagnant in comparison for the last 50 or so years . When someone thinks of taxes, they usually think that the rich get taxed more often than everyone else, although that is not always the truth, as the rich repeatedly receive tax breaks and cuts while the rest of the population do not receive much relief from taxes by the government, “from 19 79 to 2007 there were a number of major tax changes, but the cumulative effect was to render the f
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