@jeffjarvis @WSJ The Scrooge reference is apt. This article is a defense mechanism, part of a pathology that is keeping US society broken. Government doesn’t track x and y sources of income, it says — what of it? Did it track them in the past and stop for some reason? No? Then the sharp inequality trend remains. The bottom and middle quintiles enjoy the same standards of living? This is a lie written by someone who knows no one in either.