Run In With Mr. Edwards

I will email a copy of an editorial I
wrote for a local liberal paper explaining the paradox. It is too long to
post
here, but I will email a copy to anyone who wants it.

It's an interesting theory, and there is a lot of truth in it.

However, the part about the "rich getting richer, and the poor getting
poorer, despite the progressive income tax" is wrong.

As a friend of mine at the University of Iowa demonstrated to me today, the
basic premise that the "gap between rich and poor is growing" is easily
disproved with actual government tax data. In fact, the gap has narrowed
substantially.

Which, of course, means that Ted Kennedy, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, John
Edwards, Tom Vilsack, and all the rest of the Democrats are either sorely
misinformed, or simply lying to get elected.

Shocking, I know....

;-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Jay Honeck" wrote:

[...] As a friend of mine at the University of Iowa demonstrated to
me today, the basic premise that the "gap between rich and poor is
growing" is easily disproved with actual government tax data. In
fact, the gap has narrowed substantially. [...]

Plus the "gap" is not in itself an interesting quantity, if the "poor"
and "rich" standards of living are both increasing, as appears to be
the case.

- FChE