Socialist "Think Tank" Calls Gap 'Tween Rich and Poor Our "Defining Issue"

Well, it would, wouldn't it?

A year after the Occupy movement set up camps in cities around the world to protest economic disparities, the institute founded by former NDP leader Ed Broadbent has conducted a study that says income inequality is the defining issue of our time. 

“Reasonable people can differ over what income and wealth differences are needed to provide incentives and appropriate motivation in a market economy,” said the report released Tuesday. “But extreme economic inequality clearly undermines equal developmental opportunities and individual freedom since unequal economic resources give rise to significant imbalances of power.”...

See, that's the difference between Ed and me. He's into "fairness" and economic "equality," i.e. big government and petty bureaucrats acquiring a significant amount of power such that they feel no compunction about pushing us around (Babs Hall over at the Ontario "Human Rights" Commission being the perfect object lesson in that). I, on the other hand, am into freedom. As spokesperson for the Scaramouche think tank, I have concluded that that is the defining issue of our time.