A focus on income inequality and the desire to equalize economic outcomes is an idea that has killed millions and kept millions more in poverty. In 1950’s China, 60 million people died in a famine when the government followed the ideas of Mao. Compare that tragedy with the economic growth that came about once the ideas of Mao were replaced with free market ideas a few decades later.
See Thomas Sowell’s Wealth, Poverty, and Politics.
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