Not that the burden of proof is necessarily on your claim, but do you have any data on this? I know it may seem obvious enough that the burden of proof is on t

Not that the burden of proof is necessarily on your claim, but do you have any data on this? I know it may seem obvious enough that the burden of proof is on the other side, but given that the costs of all the essentials (healthcare, education, childcare, transportation) have tended towards increasing costs while "toys" have tended in the opposite direction. http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/05/its-expensive-to-be-poor/361533/ http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/05/its-expe... The data in this article is on the timescale of the last decade, but it's enough that your claim doesn't really stand on the basis of being self-evident.