The question of democracy

[Dill]

(03-14-2018, 05:40 PM)PhilHos Wrote: While I don't disagree (I know, it's a shock to me, too), the problem comes in HOW. It seems to me that much of the way to reduce economic inequality only results in a lowering of the middle class not a raising of the lower class.

Don't follow you here. You haven't specified what you mean by "way."

When Henry Ford decided to raise the wages of all his labors to five dollars a day, that didn't lower the middle class. It expanded it. When the US collected high corporate taxes in the early 40s and plowed them back into production, it pulled the US out of a depression and tremendously boosted the middle class.

Using tax money to create schools also expanded the middle class. And using it to help students pay college tuition did the same.

Countries without public education have virtually no middle class. Countries with a little public education have a little middle class. Countries with strong, mandatory education have large and larger middle classes.