Conservative voices that I agree with are not common, and Ben Stein has often said things I find disagreeable, so it’s surprising to read these words coming from Ben Stein’s printer:

…it is “unlovely” to see the extremes of wealth and nonwealth that are evident in contemporary America…The real problem is the difference between the rich — including rich oil people, of whom there are not many, but there are enough — and the poor. It is up to the government to redress this extraordinary difference in incomes of the rich and the nonrich, even at the margins…