“Nobody cares that Mitt Romney is rich. It’s Romney’s inability to understand the institutional advantage that he gains from the government’s tax code largesse that’s a little offensive to people. Especially considering Romney’s view on anyone else who looks to the government for things like, I don’t know, food and medicine.” PeopleKnowsLooksLittlesGovernmentCareViewsRichTaxesGainsAdvantageMedicineCodeConsideringOffensiveInabilityRomneyNobody CaresLargesse Author:Jon Stewart
“One of the most insidious consequences of the present burden of personal income tax is that it strips many middle class families of financial reserves & seems to lend support to campaigns for socialized medicine, socialized housing, socialized food, socialized every thing. The personal income tax has made the individual vastly more dependent on the State & more avid for state hand-outs. It has shifted the balance in America from an individual-centered to a State-centered economic & social system.” MadeStatesHandsSeemsAmericaIndividualSocialClassSupportEconomicMiddleBalanceTaxesConsequenceMedicineFinancialBurdenCampaignsIncomeDependentMiddle ClassReservesHousingIncome TaxInsidiousSocial SystemsAvidMiddle Class FamilySocialized Medicine Author:William Henry Chamberlin
“When Republicans are down, in disarray, feeling blue, they turn to a tried-and-true elixir, sort of a Doctor Feelgood medicine for them. It's called tax cuts.” FeelingsTurnsCuttingRepublicanTaxesDoctorsBlueMedicineTax CutsElixirDisarrayFeeling Blue Author:Paul Gigot
“If you're living hand-to-mouth, and still buying into the con that the big threats to America are socialized medicine, Mexican immigrants and tax increases, then you're not being kept down by the rich. You're being kept down by you.” IfsStillsHandsBigsAmericaRichTaxesMouthsIncreaseMedicineThreatBuyingImmigrantsMexicanTax IncreasesSocialized Medicine Author:Bill Maher
“I love when problems have simple solutions. Cold medicine. Umbrellas. Condoms. Tax incentives & subsidies attracting favored industries.” ProblemSimpleColdIndustryTaxesSolutionsMedicineIncentivesUmbrellaCondomSubsidiesSimple Solutions Author:Greg Fitzsimmons
“The only role other than paying their taxes, whatever those are, the only role for philanthropy broadly - of which the rich should give disproportionately - the more, the better - and I think there is a positive trend in that direction - there are certain risk-taking things, like trying out a new type of charter school or funding a new kind of medicine.” ThinkingGivingShouldTryingKindSchoolCertainRolesRichRiskTypeTaxesMedicineTrendsPhilanthropyFundingRisk-takingCharterCharter Schools Author:Bill Gates