"I sure would appreciate an explanation behind how the rich stole all the money? As I see it, for forty years trickledown economics — nothing more than tax policy that rewards capital significantly more than labor — has enabled the wealthy to keep more of what they earned. But they didn’t steal anything.

You give them your money when you rent a house that they own; when you buy a product they sell; when you borrow money to buy something you can’t afford. They didn’t steal your money. You gave it to them. Then they got a tax break on the capital gains they earned on the sale of that house that you paid their mortgage."

Stealing money isn't always holding a gun to someone's head and demanding they pass cash into their hands. Sometimes it's a matter of shifting the value of one person's labor into another person's who did not earn it's pockets.

You use the term "earn" here, in regards to how the rich accumulate wealth, but I think a better term is "accumulate". Because earn implies acquisition through merit, and there is no merit to simply having more money and living off rent or by collecting interest derived from profit created by the working class.

If you want to suggest that the wealthy didn't "steal" the money, despite rigging the system so that they most certainly collect more money, I can get on board with that-but there is no logical stretch of the imagination that could say it was earned income.