The US was more socialist after WW2.
A higher % of the population is going into the top % income brackets? Yeah, I guess the 0.001% are really representative of the average joe's great leap forward.

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Hahaha! What's next, the top 0.00001%? In the socialist era, income inequality was smaller because a huge percentage of the population was poor(the largest bracket was the poorest bracket, with each bracket afterwards getting smaller and smaller. Very few were rich), and that created a bias. Nowadays, it is more equally distributed, except that a high percentage is in the top bracket(300K income +), much higher than any other bracket. During the social era, that was the opposite. The poor(lowest bracket) was the largest bracket, and that created 'equality.' Automation and innovation has allowed this to change, and we shouldn't fight it. I want to see more and more people get into that top bracket, that way we will have HUGE inequality, in which 20-30% of the population are rich while the rest are middle income. And we should grow it higher and higher. We should be working on making this country wealthier, not equally poor.
The US is way more socialist now, hence why it is performing so poorly. Hence why social democrat Barack Osama Obama has been a detriment to thei country, morally and statistically.
About 8% of the US population is in the higher brackets, apposed to less than 1% in your 'utopian era.' However, due to social democracy policies many, many, people are becoming poorer, and many more are poverty. Median income is rapidly decreasing. This was not the case under the 'failed tickle down economy.' You people are afraid of disproportionate success; you are greedy and arrogant. I would much rather have disproportionate success than everyone becoming poorer to feed a false state of equality and happiness.