Comments on: The Shrinking Gender Pay Gap

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By: kio

kio — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:41:37 +0000

It is correct that median income has not been growing since the 1970s. On the other hand, mean incomes have been growing and the gender gap also has been narrowing.

Age dependence of mean income shows that the gap has been widening in the oldest age group. Also, the portion of (rich) males with income above $75K has been growing much faster.

http://inflationusa.blogspot.com/2008/02/mean-income-and-sex-1967-to-2005.html

By: greatwhitehunter

greatwhitehunter — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 05:10:07 +0000

Is this some kind of joke? A 35% tax rate is NOT confiscatory? I’m not in your top 1% of income earners by a long shot, though I am prosperous. Last year the Federal government took $57K out of my pay checks! That’s $57 K that I could have invested to help create more jobs, that I could have used to send my kids to college, save for retirement (so I don’t have to dpend on transfer payments from the rich, which is what an increasing number of Americans do). That also didn’t include the FICA taxes I paid, which are just a complete waste of money. I’ll never get back what I had robbed from my checks. Before you say that I should be willing to pay because I’m propsperous, let me just tell you that I also donate 12% of my income to charity. I would donate more if the government would leave more in my paychecks. Bottom line is that half of Americans don’t pay any federal taxes at all. Not one red cent! And you still can sit there and say that our system is not fair because the RICH don’t pay enough? They practically pay it all! Worst of all, the more we increase the size and availability of transfer payments, the more moral hazard we introduce into the economy. You heard me right — moral hazard. People who learn that they don’t have to work, save and take care of themselves will make the IMMORAL choice to depend on others to support them. That’s where the real immorality lies in our tax system.

By: Nadav

Nadav — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 21:09:18 +0000

I think the answer will be clearer when the question is reframed in policy making terms.
Will you, as a policy maker, accept a program that will cause a halt in men’s wages and will badly hurt women wage increase, to achieve a smaller income gap?
I consider myself very egalitarian, and my answer is a definite no.

(well, maybe it’s not so much a clearer way to reframe the question, only a more european one )