28 Quotes About Income-inequality

Politics is a game played by the rich with the lives of the poor.

All told, over the period 1932-1980, nearly half a century, the top federal income tax rate in the United States averaged 81 percent.

Why do we still cling to the intellectually retarded notion that liberty can be obtained, maintained, or lost at the end of a gun barrel? When you're working 3 minimum wage jobs to make the minimum payment on a pair of socks you bought 12 years ago because your credit card company slapped you with an interest rate that would make a loan shark holler WTF! ... well, no one needs to hold a gun to your head. Your ass has already been sold down the river.

When a man wants to rob a bank he hides behind a mask, but when a banker wants to rob a man, he hides behind a corporation.

Many American people are becoming increasingly unable to afford dying, let alone living.

Our focus should be on making the most of our own lives, regardless of whether we start at the bottom or the top- not on envying the advantages and achievements of others.

If trickle-down economics worked, we would not have four food banks in Kensington and Chelsea.

If one sentence were to sum up the mechanism driving the Great Stagnation, it is this: Recent and current innovation is more geared to private goods than to public goods. That simple observation ties together the three major macroeconomic events of our time: growing income inequality, stagnant median income, and the financial crisis.

Twenty bucks an hour is no great wage in New York, a city where the middle class starts somewhere in the six figures.