Income inequality and real median income growth are two separate issues. You claimed that "Wage growth for the working class hasn't grown since the Reagan cuts." which is simply not correct. Real median income grew by 10% in Reagan's 2nd term alone and continued to grow in the next decade after Reagan's tax cuts were implemented.
Income inequality will always be an issue in any growing capitalist economy. Folks who are more wealthy have more to invest so they take advantage of compounding growth which in turn increases their passive income. I have spent a lot of time in one former Soviet country and they had exceptional income and wealth equality under the Soviet union because everyone was dirt poor. I think we can agree that the folks in the USSR were not better off than the folks in the US middle class simply because of superior income equality.
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