You have to let the market reward effort and skill. But a system in which inequality of incomes constantly increases over time is worrisome.
There is no better example of social and economic policy discussion as an idle pastime for the rich than the World Economic Forum at Davos. These guys make the millionaire schmoozers at the Aspen Ideas Festival look like short-order cooks.
Washington culture has always had a difficult time acknowledging untruth.
The problem with wanting the tax code to be 'simpler, fairer,' and 'pro-growth' is that it's impossible to achieve all three at the same time.
Politicians have such large egos that it usually takes them an inordinately long time to grasp when they've become a pathetic joke.
When the only people in mainstream discourse who care about the working class are Wall Street investors, it really is time to ask where our politics went wrong.