Frank Bruni Thinks The Rich Get Their Money from Social Security and Medicare

That's what readers of his column on Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo would likely conclude. The column has the subhead, "Gina Raimondo's approach to income inequality."

There is not much in the piece that directly addresses income inequality as most of us would think about it. The piece highlights Raimondo's cuts to the pensions of public sector workers. This is not a group of people that ordinarily is considered to be among the rich. While the piece tells us that she "framed the cutbacks...