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“America is a nation of immigrants who forgot where they came from and poor people who think they’ll soon be rich.” ― Thor Benson

“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.” ― V.O. Diedlaff

“If trickle-down economics worked, we would not have four food banks in Kensington and Chelsea.” ― Emma Dent Coad

“I don’t mind being a team player. I’m just tired of being the soccer ball.” ― Quentin R. Bufogle

“Politics is a game played by the rich with the lives of the poor.” ― J.Adam Snyder

“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.” ― Yaron Brook

“Up until 1981, all classes of income were rising at about the same rate. However, in about 1981 a split started to happen. The 1% broke away from the crowd, and since then the top 1% of earners [...]

“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 [...]

I usually save the big zinger for my readers until the end of my articles, but I wanted you to read this first as you travel through the rest of what I have to say here. If we did this one thing [...]

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