If we are able to rid ourselves of the notions that the “free market” exists separately from government, and that people earn what they are worth to society, it will be possible for Americans to view more clearly the underlying choice: not more or less government, but a government responsive either to the demands of a wealthy minority becoming ever wealthier or to the needs of a majority that is becoming relatively poorer and less economically secure. We could then move beyond the ideological brawls that have consumed so much of the political right and left and attend instead to the central
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