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Wealth inequality stands at its highest since the turn of the 20th century - the so-called 'Gilded Age' - as the proportion of capital held by the world's 1,542 dollar billionaires swells yet higher. The report, undertaken by Swiss banking giant UBS and UK accounting company PwC, discusses the roles technology and globalization play in the status quo, and appears two weeks after the IMF recommended that the rich should pay more tax to address the enormous disparity.
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F.S. Fitzgerald to Hemingway:
"Ernest, the rich are different from us."
Hemingway:
"Yes. They have more money."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 29 2017, @06:53PM
It doesn't exist, the one they had was a $600bn set of tax cuts to the wealthy at the expense of the debt and the people's medical care.
They've had years to develop a plan for what they'd replace Obamacare with and they haven't been able to come up with anything at all. They could have come up with something in those years that might have been able to satisfy enough people to get the votes, but the fact of the matter is that they didn't even start working on it until after Trump was elected. They did the drafting in secret and the ultimate result was that they didn't have the votes to pass it because they were so focused on fucking the poorest Americans over in order to give a massive tax break to the wealthiest.