James White, the U.S. has some of the best schools (certainly universities) in the world. So too, medical institutions.

But we are wasting people (and resources) in the protection of the upper income and educated group. Yes, we spend twice as much on healthcare as Western European countries and don't live as long. Our cross-the-population scores for reading and math in schools is also below par.

To get out of this and have an America competitive in the world we need to close at least some of the gap between incomes and wealth. They amount the huge gap in opportunities which is harmful to all.

We are moving a little in that direction with some of Biden's plans. But there may be other things we can do. Andrew Yang's base income is probably the way to go. Although his figure of $1000 per adult month is a little light. The beauty of it is that it places money directly into pockets and is the antithesis of the top down approach advocated by the likes of Bernie Sanders. It was actually an idea promoted on the right. But then so too was the Affordable Heath Care.

Many thanks.