The Center Of The Economy.

       The whole issue of inequality boils down to one single, simple (actually not all that simple) discussion. Which is the center of our economy? That's the question. For about the last 35 years the answer has been corporations. But that's a flawed decision.  It's flawed, not because corporations don't generate billions and even trillions, but because it's the workers that actually manufacture the products and services that make all that money for the corporations.
       But even if it were true that only corporations create the money of the economy, corporations have proven time and again, they don't give two hoots about American economy. They can and do move offshore just to save some tax money, forgetting that it's the taxes that make our infrastructure work for them. Without the taxes; no roads, bridges, ports, airports, power grid and what else. They send jobs overseas for cheaper labor and still expect the very Americans they left behind to buy their products and pay those taxes to keep the economy moving and the infrastructure working.
       Well if it's not the corporations that create the economy then what is the center of our economy? Labor fills that role. The reason is that labor supplies the work necessary to actually produce, but it also purchases the finished product or service. Without that buyer there is no economy. So if labor is so important to the economy, then why do we ,as a country, and our government, turn our backs on labor. The right to unionize is becoming a quaint activity of the past, back when corporations took unfair advantage of workers, but that doesn't happen anymore. Oh really?
       I suppose keeping wages flat for decades isn't mistreatment, or moving out of country for that cheap labor isn't mistreating you workers either. Laws protecting labor have systematically been repealed and replaced with laws to protect corporations from individuals and groups. Laws have given corporations power to greatly influence elections and thereby politicians. What a shame.