Quote Originally Posted by steelish View Post
One of the things Obama wants to do is "spread the wealth", which, in my eyes, equates to equality of the economic classes.

Is such a thing possible? How can a nation of so many people, who are spread across such a large country and are so diverse (by diverse I mean in education, skill sets, etc.) ever be "equal"?

Your thoughts/opinions????
I think there is a pretty big difference between having Tax brackets and spreading the wealth. At the levels proposed it is also pretty ridiculous to claim what is wanted is equality of economic classes, at best the goal is slightly reducing disparity.

As for the possibility, absolutely it is possible, taxes were around 70% on the top bracket from post-world war II up until Reagan, and those were pretty good years for USA.

As for outright equality in the communist sense, it is absolutely without a doubt impossible in the US. Despite some portrayals to the contrary, the vast majority of the left is vehemently opposed to communism.

I think the framing of the question is a big issue here you seem to be presenting it as we have two options:

(i) Enforce absolute equality (is this even possible)

(ii) Do nothing whatsoever to towards any form of egalitarianism.

And whenever someone attempts to oppose (ii), they get accused of supporting (i), even despite a long track record to the contrary.