I Just found this article by Scott Olster, Editor at Large at Linked In.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-would-take-end-poverty-america-scott-olster
Here’s just one paragraph that says it all, I think.
“This is such a wealthy nation. There’s a study published recently that showed that if the top 1% of income earners just pay the taxes they owed, we could raise an additional $175 billion a year. That’s just about enough to lift everyone out of poverty. So we have the resources.”
See my previous blog on the simple solution to the Social Security problem. Why doesn’t it happen? Obviously there are complex social and moral issues behind the stalemate. Maybe greed? I hope soon to be reviewing David Enrich’s The Spider Network.