The problem of wealth was disturbing to the pistic Christians, who interpreted literally the command of Christ to the rich young man who wanted to be saved, "sell what you have and give to the poor".
Darren Gitelman Chicago, Nov. 14, 2010 To the Editor: We need to consider how tax policy can come to grips with the growing moral, political and economic problem of wealth inequality in this country, and also help solve our deficit.
The TUC is certainly right to make the point that the problem of wealth inequality in Britain is not going to be solved by cutting winter fuel payments for better-off pensioners.
The shadow Treasury minister, Rebecca Long-Bailey, said: "This Tory government has done nothing substantive to tackle the growing problem of wealth inequality in our country, in fact by cutting inheritance tax for a wealthy few at the same time as cutting universal credit for working families they are only making matters worse".
This is why it has taken so long to even admit we have a problem of wealth inequality.
Democrats are entirely culpable here -- guilty of focusing on the problem of wealth inequality, when the more pressing problem is high school and college dropouts.
The problem of wealth concentration is controversial, "but we've got to rethink the way we manage economies," said Lansley, the economist.
After diagnosing problems with inequality of wealth and opportunity, job insecurity and high costs of living, May said the UK needed to improve its productivity, lower its energy costs, build more housing, start a new industrial strategy and help all of the country's regional cities.
AS BEFITS an industrialised country, Britain's public-health problems are those of wealth rather than poverty.
The most obvious, and maybe the most discussed, solution to the problem of rising wealth equality is to tax people in the U.S. more progressively that is, in a way that redistributes wealth to less-affluent people.
