that increases the discrepancy in income between upper class and middle & lower class. "

There are 4x more billionaires in China then here and a very large portion of our Billionaires made their money through trading with China and NAFTA, shipping our jobs overseas, which hit our middle class hard.

It's not our economic system so much as the laws that allow lobbyist to stack the deck in the favor of such stupid policies. Using the government to disenfranchise the folks is not capitalism...it's corporate welfare.