Political Income Inequality

Income Inequality Income Inequality or “wage gap” is a big topic for freedom fighters and liberals for the simple fact that it isn’t equal for everyone. Because the wage gap is so prominent it's one of the biggest “facts” that discrimination is still apart of everyday American society. The wage gap from these radical interest groups think the economy is get a dollar take a dollar instead of a free flow economy. This misguided idea of the economy is absolutely not true and isn’t at the fault of the Government, but the people. One of the arguments used is that we could regulate and tax the 1% income because that would be “fair” but these numbers show how harmful that way of thinking is.

David Labaree’s book, A Perfect Mess, is an interesting exposure of the complexities of American higher education. However, at times he overemphasizes the market sensitivity of the system as a strength and his conclusions generalize between the public and private models of our system. While Labaree’s form is descriptive and accurate, his conclusion prescribes inaction toward the current problems in our university system. At many points throughout the book he acknowledges that the private system is better established in this market economy, but also that it is not accessible. Thus, his prescription of leaving the struggling public university alone may mean the end of publicly accessible education.

He also says we are not a republic because the elected representatives don’t rule in our favor, but in the favor for corporations and billionaires. Wealthy corporations and people have more rights over the average person. This in turn causes legislation to be written in their favor for their own interests. Myers believes we are turning into a Plutocracy which is the rule by the wealthy. This seems true in some aspects, but it is not always the case.

Of their son reading Weber…… be expected to compete in the technology race with Japan or remain a leading political and cultural force in Europe?” (line 47-52). America does not value academics like other countries, therefore their advancements would be better. There is no way to compete with countries that care about their academics. “How long can America remain a world-class power if we constantly emphasize socials skills and physical prowess over academic achievement and intellectual ability?” (line 53-56). There is bound to be the decline of power for the U.S. Fridman is asking these critical rhetorical questions to bring up the problem with outcasting nerds.

Voter income has become increasingly affiliated to ideological and party ID, with higher-income voters tending to be linked with Republicans, and lower-income voters leaning Democrat. The divide is significant enough that political scientists, namely Nolan McCarty in his book, Polarized America: The Dance of Ideology and Unequal Riches, have denoted popular theories for polarization (such as Southern realignment and religion) in favour of income as the primary reason. McCarty argues that the tendency for high-income Americans to side with the Republican Party reduces incentives for politicians to look for a middle ground when considering economic issues; therefore, less centrists are in government, and polarization between the two parties occur, with politicians growing farther apart on the ideological scale in order to satisfy the voting needs of the voters they have already captured (high-income for Republicans, and middle/low-income for Democrats). (McCarty et al.,

Unfortunately, the political system within the United States is prolifically corrupt. This not only applies to the people in charge and the ease by which they are able to be bribed, but to the system itself and how it fails to represent the public. It is a sad truth that the wealthy in this country have more representation, and a greater ability to change public policy than the average American. A Princeton University study concluded that, “The preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant influence upon public policy (Gilens, 11).” Political corruption is the greatest reason as to why wealth inequality is so great in the United States. The policies that are mean to protect the average American worker are being erased, while the incredibly wealthy see more tax-cuts, and are able to change policies to their

Present welfare systems are frequently criticised because it provides such a high level of benefits and this discourages individuals to work. In certain countries social benefits could even amount to a higher level than the minimum salary, which frequently causes individuals to be worse off financially, at least in the short-term. In comparison, the UBI could reduce or even eliminate the bias against work, since it does not penalise individuals for earning additional revenues. A great example are single mothers who live just above the poverty line, but if she were to marry a husband with income, it could push the family over the threshold and would not receive any social benefits. A guaranteed minimum revenue would solve this problem and wouldn’t actually demotivate single women to find a job or

This linkage is stronger than links between social mobility and poverty. “Research shows that the whole of human life existing inequalities and lack of contact between social mobility.”(Blanden, 2009) People’s well being may direly depend on income inequality People 's well being may directly depend on income inequality because they think that a highly unequal society is unfair, or because the utility loss is due to the low status of poor countries may gain because of higher status than practical wealthy. “Although many people think that income inequality is a social disease, and to understand that income inequality has many economic benefits is very important, is not the result of damage to a well-functioning economy”(Ellyatt, 2013) Equality of opportunity may be harder to achieve in an unequal

Ginsberg and Green (1986) discuss why money possibly influences members of Congress, thus possibly affecting the outcome of certain principles. In addition to corruption affecting the poorest sections of society, the effect of corruption on politics is that it renders the state incapacitated and powerless. Corruption is damaging to the state’s ability to extract taxes, to implement coherent and rational development policies, to redistribute among groups and consequently to its ability to transform the society and the economy according to political priorities. The capacity of the state to extract taxes would be erode when individuals and groups are able to pay their way out, and certainly when public officials are embezzling revenues. When bureaucratic regulations are reorganized, manipulated and operate in a confusing manner, the methods are there to enable bureaucrats to easily collect bribes.

If legitimacy is lost, it could lead to chaotic conditions because when people start to doubt the government, uprising and rebellion could be the very results to this. If certain groups vote in greater numbers than other groups, there could be a gap as to the privileged-citizens and the unrepresented most especially in influencing law makers making governmental policies. He also mentions that the biggest advantage of compulsory voting is that if there’s an enhancement in the voter turnout, bias against the less-privileged citizens is removed and that participation is equalized. Much more, vote buying is alleviated if there’s compulsory voting because the electorates are left with no choice but to