America is hurting but it’s not for a lack of money

Our nation's spike in crime from rampant petty theft to carjacking isn't caused by the "greedy 1%." The reality of America's problems stems from moral decay not the rich.

Such instances of ransacking retailers — especially for luxury goods — are examples of how the primary problems in American society are social and not economic.  E. J. Antoni is a research fellow for regional economics in The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Data Analysis and a senior fellow at Committee to Unleash Prosperity.

But that tripling of the top 1%’s share is derived from deeply flawed methodology, with such serious errors as adding people who are not in the top 1% into that group’s aggregate income figure. This analysis comes from research published September 29, 2023, by the Treasury Department’s Gerald Auten and David Splinter from Congress’s Joint Committee on Taxation.