wonderwench

Here is is: Due to production efficiencies, the relative costs of necessities (food, clothing and shelter) have declined dramatically. Instead of enabling families to save this money and build some wealth for the future, the every expanding and hungry government Hydra has consumed the savings.

Rather than blaming The Rich, your energies would be better spent understanding the negative impact this unchecked government consumption has had upon working and middle class Americans.

The Rich in any era, will have the resources to protect themselves from government, except in extreme violent revolutions - one of the reasons it is Good To Be Rich.