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if you wanted to limit the wealth disparity I think you'd have to enforce anti-trust laws first- which no one has really done in decades- they are there for a reason- to try and prevent concentration of mass wealth/power and to open up competition. you'd have to basically end government handouts and bailouts of large corporations and let them fail and die when they fail. you have to overhaul all the regulatory agencies- slash regulations that either favor big players and/or prevent competition from smaller players, and end corporate regulatory capture and root out conflict of interest. we don't really have a free market in this country- we have some sort of weird mixed system built on crony capitalism.

I think these issues are even more pressing matters than taxes imo.

Troubles me to agree with @Mdot21 but this is true. 

I truly believe that wealth inequality is one of the most troubling issues in our Country.

We are heading down a road towards being like our Central and South American neighbors with a fantastically rich over-class and massive slums for everyone else.

Democrats talk about this some but most of their policies make it worse. Republicans don't generally talk about it and should.

if you wanted to limit the wealth disparity I think you'd have to enforce anti-trust laws first- which no one has really done in decades- they are there for a reason- to try and prevent concentration of mass wealth/power and to open up competition. you'd have to basically end government handouts and bailouts of large corporations and let them fail and die when they fail. you have to overhaul all the regulatory agencies- slash regulations that either favor big players and/or prevent competition from smaller players, and end corporate regulatory capture and root out conflict of interest. we don't really have a free market in this country- we have some sort of weird mixed system built on crony capitalism.

I think these issues are even more pressing matters than taxes imo.

yup- and that is despite having very high marginal tax rates.

I believe that if you actually produce and manufacture and make things- that generates real wealth- and it spreads to many people not just a select few. we don't really do that anymore- we have a service economy large chunks of corporate profits are financialization casino money games on Wall Street and Healthcare related.

China brought 800 million people out of extreme poverty and is arguably the greatest economy in the world right now- and they did it on the back of actually making/producing things- right now they manufacture around 33% of the entire worlds goods.

One approach I'd like to flesh out more is a "guaranteed income".  We spend a lot on various programs, what if we just spent it all on this.  You get this income guaranteed, the support declines as you work and earn more, but you still get some for a while.  It ends poverty, simply.  And yes, some would waste the money.

No welfare, no SNAP, no Section 8, no nothing, just send in your income statement and get paid, sort of akin to the income tax earned income tax credit.