If I only had a brain

Let's play find the logical fallacy [hint in the post title]:

. . . economic inequality is not what is holding Americans back.
"The challenge isn't that some people are successful and some people aren't. Taking from the successful people to provide for those that aren't isn't the solution," Bush said after a closed meeting at the Metropolitan Republican Club on Manhattan's Upper East Side.

Did you find it? Answer below the fold.

That's right! You guessed it: a straw man (and you thought the title referred to the politician; I am shaking my head). When most people discuss economic inequality as a problem (as I do from time to time), they are not saying there should be complete equality of outcomes, as our presidential hopeful implied to his audience of plutocrats. They are in fact saying that there is too much inequality. It's an argument about the extent of inequality, not its existence. But by speaking as though people were arguing the latter point instead, you make them look foolish and yourself look reasonable. It's an old rhetorical trick. But now, you are armed with a little bit more skepticism and won't be fooled again.