The US tax, justice, economic, and political systems are just a few of the systems in place that support the wealthy people in America. The have the privilege of owning almost all of the wealth in the United States. According to statistics in the article, Imagine a Country, the top one percent actually owns the same amount of wealth as the bottom 95% (Imagine #88). This is no accident. The wealthy people are rich at the expense of the poor and working class (Divide #90). Between 1977 and 1992, the after tax income of the bottom 80% fell 2% while the after tax income of the top 1% rose 102% (Immiserating #91). Also, Capital gains tax has dropped to half of where they were in 1996 and corporate income tax is at an all time low of 6.2% (Normalizing #93). According to New York University Professor Edward N. Wolf keeping wages low has caused property income and stock prices to increase, which has shown an increased wealth in the rich (Great #90). The rich also enjoy more lenient ju!
             stice system. According to the Jeremy H. Reiman in his article The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison, white collar crimes cost about 200 billion dollars annually, much more than car thefts, bank robberies, and home burglaries combined, however whites receive shorter prison sentences and more acquittals. Part of the reason has to do with good lawyers and another reason according to Reiman, is that judges don't convict white defendants, because they as the judges have themselves stated, that they don't want to make a criminal out of a businessman. As a result, a white upper class business criminal has a better chance of settling damages in civil court, whereas the Hispanic car thief is more likely to plea-bargain his case to a judge and receive jail time (Rich #89). The wealthy also enjoy better schools and neighborhoods because tax money for schools are not allocated evenly as a result the wealthy have schools with many more resources, better faciliti...