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The campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) for the Democratic nomination has pushed the issue of wealth inequality to the forefront of mainstream politics. Once a tenet isolated to the fringes of the Occupy Wall Street movement, the expanding gap between the rich and poor in America is now being acknowledged by both Republicans and Democrats.

Conservative radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt was recently asked in a New York Times interview about the Republican Party’s unwillingness to increase taxes on the wealthy. He responded, “I don’t think it’s very good for the society to have billionaires. It creates envy. And envy destroys republics.” Hewitt added, “You don’t need 10 billion dollars. Nobody does. The country does.”

This growing animosity toward the greed of the immensely wealthy is not merely symptomatic of a popular presidential candidates’ rhetoric, but indicative of the harrowing economic inequalities existing in American society and politics. The 62 richest people in the world have as much wealth […]