I agree that a healthy middle class is a worthy goal, but I think where we might disagree politically is how to achieve it. I don't think you improve the lives of the middle class by cutting the wealthy off at the knees. For one thing, I don't know too many middle class people who were hired for a job by another middle class person.

I do know that nations that have chosen to try to "equalize" their income levels have generally ended up with everyone equally poverty-stricken.

I'm a lot more worried about heavy concentrations of political power than I am about concentrations of wealth. A lot of liberals are exactly the other way around. Not sure why this is so. In our current "mixed" economy we tend to get a combination of wealth and political power, which really sucks.

I believe the best way to go as a long-range goal is to free up the natural creativity and drive of our citizens as much as we can, and put the minimum government restrictions on them. This will help everyone, across the board.