Two months ago, in his prime-time address from New Orleans, President Bush called upon the nation to “rise above the legacy of inequality.” He was joking, obviously. The president’s congressional allies now propose to cut Medicaid, food stamps, free school lunches and child-care subsides. They do not propose to save money by undoing the tax cuts that have handed an average of $103,000 a year to people making over $1 million.
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So here’s a plea to Democrats. I know you’re better on inequality than the other guys. I know you don’t like to be accused of class warfare, so you shy away from attacking inequality head-on and prefer to dream up trendy policies that address middle-class concerns in an era of globalization. But this trendy stuff is a mistake. Let individuals navigate the shift from sunset industries to sunrise ones, which they can do mainly on their own. The core problem is class, which increasingly is destiny.

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