Income inequality has been around for so long that I don’t even think that the average American has any ideas on how to fix it. “Ultimately we could end up with a society in which the rich separate themselves from everyone else”(David Leonhardt). I believe that David was completely right when he said that because that is exactly what has happened. Espically, today with elections coming up we hear all over people’s campaign so and so is giving tax breaks to the rich or something similar. Why is that? I believe the rich should be paying more in taxtes because they are rich and have the money to do so. I have read some articles and have found two that have ideas that are similar and different ideas on how to fix income inequality.
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I agree with him when he says that “no American working full time should be in poverty” (Robert Reich). I agree because somebody working full time shouldn 't have to worry about how to pay for food or a home or simple basic necessities. They are working to try and better their life and with the economy the way it is’ it can seem impossible to make their lives better. The next step he talks about is unionizing low-wage workers. Unions gave the middle class a voice and bargaining power when it came to economic growth, but without unions they lose their voice. The future of the middle class would then fall into the hands of the unions of the big corporations. His third step is to invest in education. “High-quality education should be freely available to all, starting at the age of 3 and extending through four years of university or technical education” (Robert Reich). Education affects the economy more than I think people realize. In today’s day and age you can’t get a high paying job without a college degree, but not everyone in the middle class can afford to go to college. This leaves them with the option of staying at the low paying jobs or taking out a loan. The fourth step Reich focuses on infrastructure. What he means by infrastructure is the long commutes it takes to get to work, the very high house and apartment costs, lack of internet access, poor power and water sources. Americans work hard and deserve adequate housing, power and water sources, internet access and commutes to work that don’t take forever. The next step he talks about is having the wealthy pay for the investments I have already mentioned by making the rich pay higher taxes. In 2001 and 2003 George W. Bush made tax cuts, the taxes on the rich were cut, and tax loopholes for the wealthy widened. Bush’s idea was that the cuts’
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I agree with him when he says that “no American working full time should be in poverty” (Robert Reich). I agree because somebody working full time shouldn 't have to worry about how to pay for food or a home or simple basic necessities. They are working to try and better their life and with the economy the way it is’ it can seem impossible to make their lives better. The next step he talks about is unionizing low-wage workers. Unions gave the middle class a voice and bargaining power when it came to economic growth, but without unions they lose their voice. The future of the middle class would then fall into the hands of the unions of the big corporations. His third step is to invest in education. “High-quality education should be freely available to all, starting at the age of 3 and extending through four years of university or technical education” (Robert Reich). Education affects the economy more than I think people realize. In today’s day and age you can’t get a high paying job without a college degree, but not everyone in the middle class can afford to go to college. This leaves them with the option of staying at the low paying jobs or taking out a loan. The fourth step Reich focuses on infrastructure. What he means by infrastructure is the long commutes it takes to get to work, the very high house and apartment costs, lack of internet access, poor power and water sources. Americans work hard and deserve adequate housing, power and water sources, internet access and commutes to work that don’t take forever. The next step he talks about is having the wealthy pay for the investments I have already mentioned by making the rich pay higher taxes. In 2001 and 2003 George W. Bush made tax cuts, the taxes on the rich were cut, and tax loopholes for the wealthy widened. Bush’s idea was that the cuts’