Is "the rich getting richer" a problem?

[Aielyn]

spaceguy said:

While Mitt Romney does pay way too little tax, that image is inaccurate and misleading.

Mitt Romney's effective tax rate is 13.9%. The school teacher's effective tax rate is not 25% - that's the tax rate within the bracket she earns. Assuming that the school teacher is single, she only pays 25% tax on $6000 of her income (in 2010), or $1500. On the rest of her income, she pays a total of $4681.25, so that her total tax is $6181.25, or about 15.5% effective tax rate.

 

Anyway, on the general topic, "the rich getting richer" isn't a problem, but "the rich getting richer at the expense of everyone else" is.