Are we there yet?

In the 21st century, the federal government, in its quest to actualize equality, consumes (during peacetime) about ten times more of the American economy than it did a century ago. And yet economic inequality, in the President’s words, still amounts to “the defining challenge of our time.”

"No Man for Himself, And The Devil Take Most. American people vs. American government." By David Corbin and Matt Parks, The Federalist, 12/21/13.