“Investment that only goes to enrich an already wealthy elite bent on monopolizing both economic and political power cannot contribute toward égalité and justice - the foundation stones for a sound democracy.” PoliticalSoundJusticeDemocracyEconomicStonesFoundationInvestmentWealthyElitesBentPolitical PowerMonopolizing Author:Aung San Suu Kyi
“Republicans want to punish work and reward wealth; hence the high payroll tax and the low dividend tax. Said one Bush economic adviser, if we can't help wealthy investors and screw working people, what's the point in being a Republican?” PeopleIfsWantSaidHelpingWealthEconomicRepublicanTaxesLowsRewardsWealthyInvestorsScrewsAdviserDividendsPayrollPayroll Tax Author:Paul Begala
“But that's not how most of the people mentioned in this book became wealthy. Most of them became wealthy by being well connected and crooked. And they are creating a society in which they can commit hugely damaging economic crimes with impunity, and in which only children of the wealthy have the opportunity to become successful.” PeopleWellsChildrenBookPoliticalOpportunityPoliticsSuccessfulEconomicCrimeCreatingConnectedCommitWealthyCrookedImpunityOnly ChildBecoming Successful Book:Inside Job: The Financiers Who Pulled Off the Heist of the Century Source: Inside Job: The Financiers Who Pulled Off the Heist of the Century
“A nation is not made wealthy by the childish accumulation of shiny metals, but it enriched by the economic prosperity of it's people.” PeopleMadeNationsEconomicEconomicsProsperityWealthyMetalsAccumulationEconomic Prosperity Author:Adam Smith
“A very high fraction of America's economic problems come not from our difficulties with education or globalization or competition with the Chinese or whatever. But they come from the fact that a small number of wealthy and powerful people who run dangerous and/or inefficient companies are able, through the use of money in the political process, to prevent the government from regulating them properly.” PeopleFactsUseProblemGovernmentRunningAbleAmericaPoliticalProcessPowerfulNumbersCompanyEconomicDangerousDifficultyCompetitionChineseWealthyGlobalizationFractionsSmall NumbersEconomic Problems Author:Charles Ferguson
“The growing inequality of wealth and income distribution is both a moral and economic problem. If the wealthy are unwilling to pay more taxes, then this is going to lead to spending cuts. And if you put off the table things like national defense, then you're going to end up cutting more and more out of programs that aid the poor. So, I think there are consequences to this idea that tolerance for inequality requires us to - to just do nothing to make the wealthy contribute a higher share of resources to fund the government.” IfsThinkingIdeasEndsProblemGovernmentWealthPoorPayMoralCuttingGrowingShareEconomicHigherTaxesConsequenceResourcesProgramTablesSpendingDefenseAidsToleranceIncomeInequalityFundWealthyDistributionUnwillingNational DefenseEconomic ProblemsSpending CutsIncome Distribution Author:Bruce Bartlett
“Unless there is free and fair competition, there can't be healthy economic development. And what we have in Burma now is not an open-market economy that allows free and fair competition, but a form of colonialism makes a few people very, very wealthy. It's what you would crony capitalism.” PeopleFormEconomyEconomicDevelopmentHealthyCapitalismFairsCompetitionWealthyColonialismEconomic DevelopmentMarket EconomyBurmaCroniesCrony Capitalism Author:Aung San Suu Kyi