No reward, no risk.

It will never, ever be possible for everyone to have equal wealth because not everyone will ever put forth equal effort and risk. You cannot provide for everyone to have equal wealth without confiscatory practice or, as I like to call it, stealing. Taking from those who produce is taking their reward. Giving it to those who don't produce is no reward. Where there is no provision for reward, there is no provision to motivate to produce. Where there is no production there is no wealth. Where there is no wealth, there are no jobs. Remember this - governments are funded by the efforts of others who produce. They cannot produce on their own. If government policies stifle the production of individuals, the revenue to governments decreases and so does their ability to give to non-producers to maintain the folly of equal wealth. What happens when governments are not getting enough from their producers? They take total control and become a slave state with only the elite of government having wealth. The best and most fair of economies are those that are built on the efforts of individuals and the rewards to those individuals, not the dictates of confiscatory governments. You destroy the individual; you destroy the community. You take away the reward and no one will take the risk to produce. Be thankful for free enterprise capitalism on this day of thankfulness.