Representative Kyle Bailey

20 years later and we still haven’t solved the alarming issue of income inequality. Hard working Americans have struggled to survive during the past two decades. They have faced significant setbacks and losses due to the Great Recession, the COVID-19 pandemic and an economy with rules that have been written to benefit the powerful and well-connected at their expense. Every 17 hours a millionaire becomes a billionaires. The gap between the haves and the have nots continues to grow. History tells us that crony capitalism and excessive inequality undermines and eventually upends both capitalism and democracy.