And the unfairness kills us:
The problem is not the poor robbing the rich through taxes, but the rich robbing the poor through tax cuts that wreck the infrastructure. And the rich have to the chutzpah to tell us that this robbery is the way to prosperity for all.
Governments excuse themselves from delivering social services because they don’t have the tax revenues any more. So private education and health care begin to look good to the affluent, while public education and health care, like public housing and transit, become down-market services for losers.
Because so many people still believe in Horatio Alger, the income-gap debate has stayed away from the health issue.
Income gap … is literally a matter of life and death.