Income inequality is worse in towns run by Democrat mayors than in towns run by Republican mayors.
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Income inequality has gotten worse under President Barack Obama.
In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.
Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind.
You don't have to be wealthy to run for mayor. I'm a Green Party candidate running for mayor and I'm being taken seriously.
The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity.
Democrats do best in urban centers, Republicans in outer suburbs and rural areas.
There is nothing inherently fair about equalizing incomes. If the government penalizes you for working harder than somebody else, that is unfair. If you save your money but retire with the same pension as a free-spending neighbor, that is also unfair.
I really do believe that mayors have the political position to really change people's lives.
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
As a rule, our largest cities are the worst governed.
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