The Income Inequality Republicans Are Really Concerned About

As we noted the other day, the House Crackpot Caucus Republican "slumlord" budget proposal for 2016 (essentially the "compromise" passed yesterday) manifested the party's commitment to tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations and blasting a hole in the social safety net for low- and middle-income Americans, a plan that would continue to grow the gap between, as Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Galt's Gulch) would put it, the "makers" and "takers."

But there is an income inequality issue Republicans are concerned about.  Consider the plight of  Oklahoma entrepreneur Terry Neese, a Dumbya bundler in 2000 and a major Republican contributor in 2012:

This year, no potential White House contender has called — not even Bush’s brother, Jeb. As of early Wednesday, the only contacts she had received were e-mails from staffers for two other likely candidates; both went to her spam folder.

“They are only going to people who are multi-multimillionaires and billionaires and raising big money first,” said Neese, who founded a successful employment agency.

“Most of the people I talk to are kind of rolling their eyes and saying, ‘You know, we just don’t count anymore.’ ”

It’s the lament of the rich who are not quite rich enough for 2016.

Yes, it must be heartbreaking not to be grifted stroked by the various Republican hopefuls up to this point, just because you're only a lousy millionaire!  It's all because of those billionaire Republican contributors =cough= Kochs Menard Adelson =cough= that are millionaire-shaming you!

That's income inequality, Republican-style, for you!

BONUS:  As if on cue, far-right Republican Tory George "Quill Pen" Will tells us why income inequality is good for us.  Smug, incorrigible wanker.