United Nations report on the US

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Teeqoz said:

DonFerrari said:
That is consequence of increasing government and taxes, a very effective way to take money from the poor and deliver to the elite that marry the politicians.

Federal taxes in the US have genreally been decreasing, while inequality has generally been increasing. This sort of shoots a hole in your theory that taxes are the source of this inequality. Not to mention that the developed countries with the most social mobility are countries with high taxes and large governments, like Denmark, Canada, Norway and Finland.

Oranges and apples. Homogeneous countries have homogeneous outcomes, diverse countries have diverse outcomes.