The Dirty Little Secret of "Income Inequality"

From John Hayward at Human Events.

As with so many other statistics, numbers that “prove” income inequality can be made to dance on the head of a pin.  It’s especially easy when not even the word “income” has a clearly understood meaning anymore.  The more compensation is routed through the government, the less aware of it an employee becomes.  That’s the whole idea behind paycheck withholding: grab those taxes before people even realize the money is gone.  Very few of us have a clear idea of just how much of our money is “going,” or where it goes.