This is Extreme Wealth Inequality: How Does One Fix This?

[bhikkhu]

10. Three simple things would help a great deal

Increase the "death tax", which is a basic way to increase the opportunities for social mobility.

Fund universal healthcare, which would limit one large factor driving the middle class into poverty.

Tax capital gains and high-earners fairly and equally - there's no point in encouraging people to launder their incomes in capital gains, and a simple "flat tax for the wealthy" would be more realistic than the maze of loop holes and shelters that exist currently.

All three are on the president's agenda, in process or as items to push for, but whether they get done and how well they get done depends largely on what sort of congress we elect.