Republican Senate Candidate: Gap Between Rich and Poor "Should Be Wider"

Republican Senate Candidate: Gap Between Rich and Poor "Should Be Wider"
Mother Jones

—By Nick Baumann

| Fri Nov. 11, 2011 11:22 AM PST

Without the wealth gap, how would the rich have the money for necessities like this? maistora/Flickr

Some people think that the large and growing gap between the richest 1 percent of Americans and the other 99 percent, nicely illustrated in our inequality charts, is reflective of broader problems in our society and should probably be smaller. Clark Durant, a Republican businessman who's running for Senate in Michigan, has an alternative view:

In regards to the Occupy Wall Street movement, Durant said the protesters should "go find a job." In regards to the wealth gap the movement decries, Durant said, "I think it should be wider."