Professor Philip Alston: What worries me most is that with economic inequality goes political
inequality. Political power then looks after its own interests, and so what I
think we're seeing is not just a very grim future for the 40 million Americans
who are already living in poverty, but for the hundred million or so of the
middle class who will really suffer increasingly as the gaps grow. So the
problem for the middle classes is that the constant tax cuts are going to lead
to over more cuts in terms not just of welfare, but in terms of any government
services that are provided. Every time there are tax cuts, every time there are
reductions in services the burden is imposed usually on women, who are the
ones who pick up the slack in terms of having to care for people. It means that
when people are in difficulty they won't be able to count on government benefits
that all sorts of Social Security and other payments will start to be reduced
and I think that will just increase inequality and make life very difficult
not just for people who are currently poor but for the hundred million or more
who are in the middle class.
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