Or instead of spending ridiculous amounts of money gearing up when every other class can obtain their gear through normal means... you can play a paladin with a fraction of the effort to accomplish the exact same things.
That's not even assuming what you claim about stats/itemization being correct, which has not been proven.

Aren't you pretty much reinforcing the discrepancy of pal vs war? If investing more in gear is your equalizing element then that's not a solution for balance at all. It just points out how lopsided it really is.