Gushers of Campaign Cash are Causing Widespread Inequality
http://www.alternet.org/hard-times-usa/gushers-campaign-cash-are-causing-widespread-inequality
Fifty years ago, average Americans lived in a society where less than $10 of every $100 in personal income went to the nations richest 1 percent.
Our top 1 percent are now grabbing just under 20 percent of Americas income, double the 1963 level.
How did this happen? We Americans certainly never voted for this upward redistribution. In all the years since Martin Luther King, Jr.s I Have a Dream speech, no candidates ever campaigned on a platform that called for enriching Americas already rich.
This doesnt make sense. Americans, after all, live amid democratic institutions. Why havent the American people, through these institutions, been able to undo the public policies that squeeze the bottom 99 percent and lavishly reward the crew at the top?Yet the rich have been enriched. And they keep getting even richer while Americas 99 percent face an economic insecurity that never lets up.