The run-away-train is almost out of sight. The powerful are not going to want to have controls placed on them nor share their power.

Freedom has its risks for sure. It has it's downside. Nothing is perfect. How, for instance, do you legislate greed out of the greedy? Well, you can't. But you can put controls in place on their behaviors. I think we should have had some measures in place that would have improved the situation before reaching the point we are at now:

No more lobbying.

Remove the tax income ceiling on Social Security taxes. (I think the maximum taxable income is currently $176,000.).

Put an end to the legal strategies and incentives built into the tax laws that permit the ultra-wealthy to reduce their tax burden. Many of these incentives are not available to the middle class tax payer.

Restructure healthcare. The rich can afford it, the poor get financial help from 'the system', and the middle class falls through the cracks. IF we want to keep a privatized system then it needs financial restructuring because it can't keep going the way it is now. Plus access to healthcare is extremely lopsided and unfair: profit limits. Big pharma, for instance, is super guilty of price gouging in the US. Put an end to it. Also, limit patents on new drugs. Big pharma often applies for patent extensions in order to keep the profits rolling in which are already hefty. No more extensions, no more 'evergreening', no more 'patent thicketing' and the like.

Control border entry: Vet people before they enter the country. Limit how many are permitted in annually. Vetting them after they are already in the country places a huge burden on law enforcement and the court systems. As lovely as an ideal is to try and save all worthy cases, we are a country of limited resources and it can't be done. Like it or not, we need to recognize our limitations. Exceed those limitations, we go down and take everyone in our country down with us. That is senseless.

Congress should not get automatic raises. There should also be term limits. Member of Congress collect their benefits and salary and are very ineffective. We pay them to preform a service for us that they routinely fail at.

The Middle Class must pay for their personal housing needs. Why do some of these politicians get a free ride off the taxpayer for their housing? Why does the Mayor of NYC get to live for free in Gracie Mansion? What is the Mayor, royalty or something? We have to pay our way, so should he, she or any other politician for that matter. Politicians are public servants, not royalty. Stop treating them as such.

Just some ideas off the top of my head right now. I am sure others can add to and/or revise or improve those ideas.

Will we ever be perfectly equal? No. But we can work to improve things because they sure as hell are nowhere near equal now.