It is one thing to see inequalities in pay, after all the people making money are making the rules. It seems that at least our government would attempt to be fair in distributing wealth, it only seems though. In fact, the government has been part of the problem. Part of the government’s job is to take in money through taxes and then use this money to fund public programs, like education, infrastructure, and health care. This is, in part, a way to redistribute wealth. However, this redistribution has been unbalanced in favor of the wealthy. We only need to turn as far as the policy that Bush implemented shortly after coming to office to see a prime example. His tax cuts, which were sold as a necessaty to boost the economy, directly redistribute 500 million dollars out of social services funds and into the pockets of a select few making over 375,000 dollars a year. It is bad enough that it is only the rich seeing their bank accounts grow through tax cuts, but as stated above, this money comes out of funds meant to support the average person’s schools, housing, and health care. Almost worse than the rich get richer, poor get poorer saying, there is a new problem developing where the rich get richer and the poor and middle class lose opportunities and adequate access to basic services.
