“A certain number of Americans are already in Peking and most of us here feel that it would be very useful for the United States and especially for the Left-wing progressive movement in the United States if groups of students such as you mention could make a tour of China.” IfsFeelsStatesWould BeCertainLeftUnitedNumbersUnited StatesGroupsMovementStudentsWingsChinaProgressiveLeft WingProgressive Movement Author:Anna Louise Strong
“Generally, we are united in the belief that all rod design has been progressive and that the ideas about fly rods in the past were so bad as to make it amazing that people were able to fish at all.” PeopleHas BeensIdeasAblePastBeliefUnitedSeaDesignRiversFishesBoatLakesFishingProgressive Book:The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing Source: The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing
“The United States Supreme Court, once a reliable if ultimate recourse for progressive and even revolutionary grievances, has become a retrograde wellspring for enormous economic and social distress.” IfsStatesLawSocialJusticeUnitedUnited StatesEconomicUltimateCourtSupremeEnormousRevolutionaryProgressiveDistressSupreme CourtGrievanceRecourseWellspringRetrograde Book:Technical Difficulties: African-American Notes on the State of the Union Source: Technical Difficulties: African-American Notes on the State of the Union
“What, after all, is the narrative of the American Dream? It was a discourse formulated between the 1880s and the 1920s in the United States during the great waves of migration and expansion and reforms of the Progressive Era.” StatesDreamUnitedUnited StatesWaveReformErasNarrativeProgressiveAmerican DreamExpansionDiscourseMigration Author:Naomi Wolf
“There are 11 states in the United States that in the last 50 years instituted an income tax. So I looked at each of those 11 states over the last 50 years, and I took their current economic metrics and their metrics for the five years before they put in the progressive income tax... Every single state that introduced a progressive income tax has declined as an overall share of the U.S. economy.” YearsStatesLastsUnitedUnited StatesEconomyFiveShareEconomicTaxesCurrentsIncomeFive YearsProgressiveIncome TaxMetrics Author:Arthur Laffer