52% of Americans called the rich-poor gap “an acceptable part of our economic system”:
In a Dec. 16 Gallup poll, 52 percent of Americans called the rich-poor gap “an acceptable part of our economic system.” Only 45 percent said it “needs to be fixed.”
Hmm, you know what this means, right? There is absolutely no need for any more polls. All those previous polls that have shown income inequality a problem are now irrevocably null and void because we have the one poll that says income inequality is part of the economic system! Right? Right says always, lower taxes on the rich, always, conservative pundit, Kathleen Parker:
But there’s a new—there’s new— you know, a new report came out recently from Gallup that, that had some very interesting statistics and that—one of them was that while we talk about income equality and the president is certainly advancing that narrative, the American people really don’t see it that way. The majority does not feel that income equality is the big problem that it’s being advanced as.
Right! Though:
Asked to rate the importance of alternative federal policies, the public saw both economic growth and redistribution as worthy objectives — but put the former well ahead of the latter. Some 82 percent said growth was either “extremely” or “very” important; only 46 percent said “reduc[ing] the income and wealth gap between rich and poor” was “extremely” or “very” important.
Sorry, 82%, your problem wont be solved because you wont vote for dudes who’ll make it happen.
