Ending gerrymandering

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    From the Economist: Ending gerrymandering - excerpt:

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    For a country that believes "if you work hard you'll get your fair share of the pie", the facts of the matter are otherwise. Manipulations of the voting process have worked well to assure that Income is divided very unevenly in the US.

    For more than two centuries since the Electoral College was concocted in 1812 along with a Massachusetts governor who created Gerrymandering, the US has not had a either a state or national election that was free, open and without manipulation.

    The purpose? To obtain the means such that legislation always was done to assure that money-interests were favored and the Income Pie served them first and everybody else last. Of course, in a country that idolizes the notion of "Making a Megabuck", it becomes easy to maintain taxation at exceptional depths to please society's "upper-crust" the the lion's share of Income. And the manipulations of voting procedures in both state and national voting helps guaranty that outcome.

    But it does nothing for what economists call "Income Disparity", which is the notion that if all incomes cannot be the same (the socialist idiocy) then why ever should we accept that the inequality of incomes should be so great ... ?

    US Income Inequality Chart:
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    Last edited: Oct 12, 2018

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