Wealth Disparity Warrior Pillows

'The rich get richer, but what do the poor get?'

"No, of course there isn't, 'one law for the rich and another for the poor'... There's no law for the poor."

Flat tax - equal burden?

"What's wrong, girl? Trouble? Rachel can't decide which private school to attend?" "Upper West Side Lassie"

"...and the asparagus this evening is delightful. It's been simmering all day in the tears of the poor."

'The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. That's a wonderful mission statement.'

You would have to work decades to make what many CEO's do in an hour.

The hourglass figure of economic injustice.

How Trickle Down Economics Work

Beggar tosses money to the 1%.

Oil in Nigeria.

"I worry that we're headed for a future where you won't be able to earn three hundred times the salary of your lowest paid worker."

'Enough of this trickle-down stuff. I say let it trickle up for a while.'

Rebuilding the Economy.

Ryan Crossing

Trickle down

"Looks like charity is the transfer of money from poor people in rich counties to rich people in poor countries."

"Sir - it appears you and a few others have 98% of all the money that presently exists in America...nobody has the money to buy anything."

Oxfam report shows the 8 richest men as much wealth as the poorer half of humanity.

Growing inequality

'The purpose of government is to protect me from him.'

'Wow, they certainly know how to hide their poverty!'

'Class Warfare!'

Corona Vaccine

Campus. Professor Frump is the most respected faculty member here. All the other professors want to be noticed by him. This semester he's teaching three classes. But for some unknown reason lots of students are dropping the second one. He asked why this is happening. Hoping to impress him, sociology and economics scholars rushed to present him with their theories. I guess he should have been more specific when he questioned with the middle class is disappearing.

Shared Poverty

"Who would ever have guessed that there'd be a golden age of debt?"

"Interestingly, my half of the glass is full."

Got Customers?

"Designer sheets...They must be in the 1%."

"Here's the thing. . . if we give poor people too much, rich people will long longer run the country."

"But the people,Your Majesty! The people are not happy."

The unacceptable face of capitalism

Too Much Money

Economic theory office with two boxes on desk - 'the rich get richer' and 'the poor get poorer'.