Outside a wartime context, arguments that estate tax rates must remain high in order to prevent undue concentration of wealth have failed to carry the day.
While the companies controlled by the family have been keen to introduce new compensation packages, patriarch Peter Wallenberg and his talented sons Jacob and Marcus aren't the kind of owners to transfer an undue amount of wealth from their own pockets to those of their hired hands.
Let us go back to Mencius for an insight into what the role of the public servant, both scholar and government official holding up high ethical values, can be in countering the undue influence of wealth and power.
"What it suggests is that Citizens United has become a symbol for what people perceive to be a much larger problem, which is the undue influence of wealth in politics".
While one party openly panders to banks and wealthy elites, the other quietly supports their extraction of wealth and undue influence while passing toothless reforms to hold up as trophies to their base.
The former are accorded undue respect because of their wealth, the latter because of the positions they hold.
We have, however, a clear mandate from the people, that Americans must forswear that conception of the acquisition of wealth which, through excessive profits, creates undue private power over private affairs and, to our misfortune, over public affairs as well.
But centers of wealth tend to place undue emphasis on wealth as a measure of status.
The rules of this video game are: 1) Accept the fact that the ultra-rich will keep accumulating ever greater amounts of wealth, and will continue to exert undue influence on the political process.
But a majority share Sanders's outrage about the growing concentration of wealth and income, excessive executive compensation and corporate profits side-by-side with the epidemic of layoffs and foreclosures, and the undue political influence of billionaires like the Koch brothers, the Walton family, and Rupert Murdoch.
