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'After all, a Democratic theory of politics — most recently exposed by Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber's moments of honesty — is to say one thing, do another and count on the voters being too dumb to notice. While the Democrats are lamenting income inequality, they are pushing the very policies that create it. They give lip service to job creation and helping the middle class, but what they really do is increase energy costs, impose punitive regulations on businesses, demand higher labor costs, call for more taxes and make anti-free-market accommodations for labor unions. In the Democrats' economy, the rich get richer and the poor get more promises — and it is the mega-rich and the very poor who form the bookends of the Democrats' winning presidential coalition. The middle class is left in an economic dead zone — a zone that used to be populated with jobs in industries that melt steel, gather, consume and fashion raw materials or otherwise produce heat and emissions the Democrats find offensive.'

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2015/01/05/the-insiders-income-inequality-the-issue-the-democrats-want/