"a private company purchased land in a tiny Arizona town - and sold its water rights to a suburb 200 miles away."

Thanks, Capitalism!

"what changes specifically?"

Right to work.
End of pensions.
Tax-Favoring capital gains over earned income.

"But wealth inequality has gone the same direction on the whole planet."

Don't Republicans believe to the very core of their being that America is supposed to be better than the rest of the planet?

Just another lie, I guess.

"right.....those countries weren't developing their cronyism before this country even began."

Nixon (R) decided it was good for America to bring them under the umbrella of Western Crony Capitalism so that GE could save money by closing factories here and opening them in China.

Before then, we chose not to do business with China because Communism Bad.

Republicans changed that. Give Republicans some credit, or do you identify as one because you think they're impotent?

gone the same direction

He's talking about direction, but not talking about magnitude.

It's a common weasel approach. MadBomber does it every time I say practically all the gains in household income have gone to the top 20%. Apparently, a few crumbs went to the bottom 80% is supposed to mean they technically all experienced gains, so quit yer bitchin.

"die on that hill if you want.
A hill where global wealth inequality is the fault of US tax policy."

No, you died on that hill.
Global inequality is your "contribution" to the discussion.
Nobody brought it up until you needed a reason to give Republicans a pass for Reagan's US trickle down economics inequality policy.

"nobody died anywhere, drama queen."

Nobody ever accused you of not being gutless.

I hope you get the handout you think you so richly deserve!