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...from, and it is unlikely that you're going to find as wide a pool of qualified applicants as you'll find in women's soccer," says Tim W. Wheaton, the varsity women's soccer coach. "The dominant women's soccer programs around the country come from primarily suburban, affluent, educationally-oriented areas and homes, with kids who would be applying to Harvard even if they didn't play soccer...
...Harvard students see a fairly sanitized version of Cambridge each day; even with the homeless people and panhandlers in the Square, our surroundings are comfortably affluent. But Cambridge is not all quaint boutiques and swank restaurants...
...Americans, Buchanan is the only G.O.P. candidate to address the issue directly and with gusto. The left-wing Nation magazine calls Buchanan "the closest thing to a genuine populist in the 1996 race." The others seem to have found no way to talk about income inequality without offending their affluent base of supporters and campaign contributors. While Buchanan strikes a populist note on the gap between wage earners and Wall Street, much more of his stump speech is devoted to redirecting blame at less powerful targets: immigrants, welfare recipients, homosexuals, beneficiaries of affirmative action, government bureaucrats...
Still, the same trend that thus complicates the economics of redistributive taxation presumably simplifies the politics of it by increasing the number of resentful voters. Between 1980 and 1989, the share of national income claimed by the most affluent one-twentieth of households rose from 21% to 26%; for the upper one-fifth as a whole it rose from 47% to 52%. Meanwhile, the share fell for the second one-fifth--and the third, and the fourth, and the fifth. The potential appeal of a sharply redistributive income tax is unknown, but this simple math suggests it's bigger than...
...question arises: If aggregate growth has lately been widening the gap between the affluent and the middle class, why should spurring even more growth by unfettering capitalism be expected to narrow the gap? It's the most fettered capitalist economies that have kept that gap the narrowest. Virtually all European countries have higher taxes than the U.S. (as a fraction of economic output) and higher income equality...