Agreed. Ditto unemployment, literacy, food security, life expectancy, wellness, birthrate, and so forth. Managing to target inequity value, by whatever measure

Agreed. Ditto unemployment, literacy, food security, life expectancy, wellness, birthrate, and so forth. Managing to target inequity value, by whatever measure, would moot the endless food fights over the tax code. We should be arguing about the kind of society we want. Not fighting over implementation details, divorced from outcomes.