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New evidence of extraordinary growth in income inequality

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently released new information on the income growth for each income category over the period from 1979 to 2000. The new CBO data show rapid income growth among the highest-income households, with less growth among low- and middle-income households. The CBO data are more comprehensive than the Census Bureau income data because the CBO income measure includes realized capital gains and the value of near-cash benefits such as food stamps. The CBO also estimates tax liabilities so the data can be used to identify the growth of both pre-tax and after-tax incomes....

Voting inequality - Income inequality....

In many states, having a felony conviction revokes voting rights. Since blacks are convicted of felonies at a higher rate than whites and poor are more likely to be convicted of felonies that the wealthy, this prevents a lot of poor and blacks from voting. Who needs a poll tax or voter test? There are other ways of keeping blacks from voting. When will this racial discrimination be challenged?

Elections are held on workdays. Many high income people can take time out to vote during the work day. Workers with inflexible schedules (often lower paid) have to try to get to the polls before or after work. With early poll closing times (6pm , 7 pm) and often long lines many people are excluded from voting that want to vote. If both parties were interested in as many people as possible participating in elections, they would be held on a Saturday or a non-workday or over a couple of days. However, the powers that be don't want too many of the "wrong" type of people to vote. That is why they use political tactics to try to minimize voting by those who are likely to vote for their opponents. This is the chief reason that negative ads are so popular. They convince people not to bother voting for the other candidate.

It does seem that the election of the president should be separate from other elections, and there should be a holiday on that day, workers on essential work, ie unable to have a holiday, be allowed to vote by mail.

It does seem that the election of the president should be separate from other elections, and there should be a holiday on that day, workers on essential work, ie unable to have a holiday, be allowed to vote by mail.

big al: "It does seem that the election of the president should be separate from other elections, and there should be a holiday on that day."
I feel confident that you could have won a debate at the Constitutional Convention on that point, except I guess that they didn't lay out details on elections. I'd love to hear an expert weigh in. They certainly wanted all voters to have access to voting (not slaves though).

Of course, workers on essential work are allowed to vote by mail now. As are the rest of us.

And why are presidential elections more important than congressional elections? The branches are supposed to be co-equal.

Amos, didn't you know Congress is a rubber stamp?

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