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The inherent flaw in your poll is that it's asking for simple solutions to complex problems.
How do you discourage/reduce the wealth gap? You do it by creating a regulatory and legislative environment that is hostile to an increasing wealth gap. This includes a proper minimum wage and prtotections in place for labourers. It includes a progressive tax system and using those taxes to fund social welfare programs. It includes (gasp) socialist institutions, such as public healthcare and education. It includes a hundred other things I can't think of off the top of my head.
The problem in the US is the first bit -- creating an environment that's hostile to a wealth gap is interpreted as an environment that's hostile to the wealthy -- which, to an extent, is true. This seems to be a sin in the land of the free.
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I get through cryin' and I'm sadder than before I wept
I get through thinkin' now, and the thoughts have left my head
I get through speakin' and I can't remember, not a word that I said
- Ben Harper, Show Me A Little Shame
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