“The government's coercive taxing power necessarily creates two classes: those who create and those who consume the wealth expropriated and transferred by that power.” TwoGovernmentWealthClass Author:Sheldon Richman
“Whatever happened to Warren Buffett, the world's their-richest man? Guilt, a feeling of being blessed by luck, forgotten lessons - who knows? In any case, Buffett now believe that government should redistribute the wealth earned by others to those who did not earn it.” KnowsMenWorldShouldBelieveFeelingsGovernmentWealthCasesHappenedLessonsBlessedLuckGuiltForgottenBeing BlessedBuffettWarren Buffet Author:Larry Elder
“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
“Corrupted by wealth and power, your government is like a restaurant with only one dish. They've got a set of Republican waiters on one side and a set of Democratic waiters on the other side. But no matter which set of waiters brings you the dish, the legislative grub is all prepared in the same Wall Street kitchen.” LongMatterGovernmentSidesWealthStreetsWallRepublicanDemocraticPreparedKitchenRestaurantsDishesWaiter Author:Huey Long
“We’ve been so preoccupied with getting the government to behave in a fair and democratic way, we were not able to focus on the private sector where most of the jobs are, where most of the wealth and opportunities are.” WayGovernmentAbleJobsOpportunityWealthFocusFairsDemocraticBehavePrivate Sector Author:Jesse Jackson
“There is nothing wrong with corporations. Corporations are a good thing. But corporations should not be running our government. Corporations are good because they drive our economy, they encourage people to assemble wealth and to risk it and then create jobs.” PeopleShouldGovernmentRunningJobsWealthEconomyRiskGood ThingsCorporationsRisk It Author:Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
“Imagine what would happen if the government were to take the wealth of 200,000 of India's richest people and redistribute it amongst 2 million of India's poorest? We would hear a lot about socialist appropriation and the death of democracy. Why should taking from the rich be called appropriation and taking from the poor be called development?” PeopleIfsShouldGovernmentHappensWealthPoorMillionsDemocracyRichImagineDevelopmentIndiaSocialistPoorestAppropriation Author:Arundhati Roy
“The economic welfare of all our people must ultimately stem not from government programs, but from the wealth created by a vigorous private sector.” PeopleGovernmentWealthEconomicProgramWelfareStemVigorousPrivate SectorGovernment Programs Book:Ronald Reagan Source: Ronald Reagan
“When it is established that government by right can take wealth from some and give it to others. When a society establishes criminals-by-right and looters-by-law, men will use force to seize the wealth of disarmed victims. Such looters believe it safe to rob defenseless men, once they have passed a law to disarm them. But their loot becomes the magnet for other looters, who get it from them as they got it. Then the race goes, not to the ablest at production, but to those most ruthless at brutality. When force is the standard, the murderer wins over the pickpocket.” MenGivingBelieveUseGovernmentLawWinningForceWealthRaceSafeStandardsVictimProductionsCriminalsMurdererRuthlessBrutalityMagnetRobbersRobbingDefenselessRuthlessnessLooting Author:Ayn Rand
“Just look at that Forbes 400. Takes a billion three to get on the Forbes 400 this year. And the aggregate wealth is just staggering. And those people are paying less percentage of their total income to the federal government than their receptionists are. [...] I'll bet a million dollars against any member of the Forbes 400 who challenges - me that the average for the Forbes 400 will be less than the average of their receptionists.” PeopleYearsLooksGovernmentThreeChallengesWealthMillionsMembersDollarsAverageBillionsIncomeFederal GovernmentPercentagesMillion DollarsStaggeringForbesReceptionists Author:Warren Buffett
“There's one other interesting thing about Western democracy. It didn't arrive at the end point that Karl Marx thought it would that wealth would become more and more concentrated in the hands of the few, that eventually the few would be killed by the many who were deprived, and that a different kind of government would then develop. What happened in Western democracy is that we began to understand that a democratic system can't work if half of the people are starving and the other half are dieting.” PeopleIfsKindDifferentEndsHandsGovernmentWould BeWealthInterestingHalfDemocracyHappenedDemocraticWesternDifferent KindsDeprivedStarvingInteresting ThingsOther HalfDieting Author:John Shelby Spong
“I think the basis - the foundation - has already been laid for a society where people will work together and enjoy the wealth of the whole nation together. I think this will be accomplished because this is the theme of the revolutionary government's program.” PeopleThinkingWholeGovernmentTogetherNationsEnjoyWealthProgramBasesFoundationRevolutionaryThemeAccomplishedWorking Together Author:Huey Newton
“What the Supreme Court did in Citizens United is to say to these same billionaires and the corporations they control: 'You own and control the economy, you own Wall Street, you own the coal companies, you own the oil companies. Now, for a very small percentage of your wealth, we're going to give you the opportunity to own the United States Government.' This is the essence of what Citizens United is all about - and that's why it must be overturned.” GivingStatesGovernmentOpportunityWealthUnitedCompanyUnited StatesEconomyStreetsWallCitizensEssenceCourtOilSupremeCorporationsSupreme CourtCoalPercentagesBillionaireState GovernmentUnited States GovernmentOil CompaniesCitizens United Author:Bernie Sanders
“Government may not redistribute private wealth or grant special privileges to any individual or group.” MayGovernmentIndividualWealthGroupsSpecialPrivilegeGrants Author:Noam Chomsky
“If [Donald Trump] doesn't make sure that all the foreign government payments - and this includes banks and other corporations owned by foreign governments and sovereign wealth funds, that all of that money is not out of the Trump organization by Friday [20 Jan.2017], when he takes the oath, he will be in violation of "The Constitution."” IfsGovernmentWealthTrumpOrganizationConstitutionCorporationsFundSovereignFridayPaymentViolationOath Author:Reince Priebus
“It's very difficult, historically, to define what an elite is. But whatever it is, people are very angry at that idea, I think, not so much because of wealth or privilege as much as attitude that the populous masses, if I could use that overused term, feel that a particular government or cultural group is not subject to the ramifications of their own ideology.” PeopleIfsThinkingFeelsIdeasUseGovernmentDifficultTermWealthAttitudeGroupsSubjectsParticularMassAngryPrivilegeIdeologyIf I CouldElitesRamificationsOverused Author:Victor Davis Hanson
“I think that the spirit of America is still very much one of where people want to work hard and the majority of people want to work hard. They want to be entrepreneurs. But when you have that all taken away with government regulation or with government overbearance of taxation, you start to wonder whether if it's even worthwhile because who are you really working for? Are you working for yourself, are you working for the government? In the end, this wealth distribution scheme that's at the heart of the current political administration is an inherently wrong one.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantHeartStillsEndsHardGovernmentAmericaPoliticalSpiritWealthWonderTakenHard WorkMajorityEntrepreneurCurrentsAdministrationWorthwhileRegulationSchemesDistributionTaxationGovernment Regulation Author:Robin Leach
“There are certain areas where foreign investors can help the local people to generate wealth, and improve their quality of life. Some companies, for example, Del Monte, which produces pineapples in Kenya, pay a huge amount of taxes, I am sure, to the Kenyan government, and they do create jobs for thousands of locals.” PeopleHelpingGovernmentJobsCertainWealthPayQualityCompanyExampleProduceHugeAmountTaxesAreasLocalsInvestorsQuality Of LifeKenyaPineapples Author:Wangari Maathai
“The whole privatisation of health and education, of natural resources and essential infrastructure - all of this is so twisted and so antithetical to anything that would place the interests of human beings or the environment at the center of what ought to be a government concern - should stop. The amassing of unfettered wealth of individuals and corporations should stop. The inheritance of rich people's wealth by their children should stop. The expropriators should have their wealth expropriated and redistributed.” PeopleShouldHumansChildrenWholeGovernmentIndividualInterestNaturalWealthHuman BeingsRichEnvironmentOughtEssentialsResourcesConcernShould HaveCorporationsInfrastructureInheritanceTwistedRich PeopleNatural ResourcesHealth And Education Author:Arundhati Roy
“By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.” ImportantGovernmentProcessWealthPoorMoneyPowerEconomySocietyEconomicCitizensEconomicsProsperityContinuingBankingInflationCivil SocietyEconomic FreedomDistribution Of WealthCentral BankingEconomic ReformsHyperinflationContinuing On Book:The Economic Consequences of the Peace Source: The Economic Consequences of the Peace
“As long as we see America and her wealth as something that we want, we will never leave Pharaoh. As God's hand touched the wealth of Pharaoh, it is now touching the wealth of America. As the Black man and woman become more awakened to the wicked machinations of government, the aim is the same today: We should never be free of their influence and power.” MenWantShouldLongHandsGovernmentTodayAmericaBlackWealthInfluenceMen And WomenAimWickedTouchedTouchingAwakenedPharaohsInfluence And Power Author:Louis Farrakhan
“I often repeat three numbers: 20-23-26. Quebec generates only 20 per cent of Canada's wealth; it represents 23 per cent of the population, but it does 26 per cent of government spending in Canada. That's incompatible with good financial health over the long term.” LongDoeGovernmentThreeTermWealthNumbersFinancialPopulationSpendingLong TermRepeatsCanadaCentsGovernment SpendingQuebec Author:Philippe Couillard