Luis Gutierrez Quotes
According to the study, approximately 16.7 million U.S. workers born in Latin America had a combined gross income of $450 billion last year, of which 93 percent was spent locally.
United States, Congress, House. Representative Gutierrez speaking on the Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005. Congressional Record, vol. 151, pt. 22, 15 Dec. 2005, p. H11867.
There are two reasons that government cannot depend on the rich for tax yield. First, there are very few rich compared to middle class workers. Although the rich person may pay more on the average in taxes, than others, there are not enough to cover all the expenses of a modern government. Second, because the rich make larger policitcal contributions and have lobbyists, they get legislation that exempts them from many taxes or provides loopholes. So even though the wealthy are theoretically supposed to pay a higher rate of taxes, as a practical matter, most wealthy people pay a lower tax rate than their secretaries or the waiter who will serve them lunch—the Buffet Principle.
She was refuting the claim of many economic conservatives that cutting taxes will always produce economic growth. Actually, in many cases tax cuts do have that effect, but as the counter-example shows, not always and not under all conditions. The Kennedy tax cuts, for example, did produce economic growth.
This was one of the perceived advantages of the South—that the North, with its more complex and sophisticated society, would pay a higher economic price by fighting than the South would. Southern whites didn’t work or farm much and they could fight and the older men and slaves could keep the agriculture and economy going. However, the huge superiority of the North in productivity and technology, in farming, manufacturing, transportation and military offset the Southern advantage do a great degree. But when the North attracted so many of the Southern Negro slaves to their lines, the Southern labor force was diminished greatly for the first time. And Sherman’s March showed how the entire Southern economy could be crippled and the war was strategically lost by the Confederates. The reality of superiority of the North and the attitude of elites like Emerson in freely discussing that fact, was resented by Southerners then and since. There is to this day a Southern resentment of intellectuals and highly educated people—a vestige of the reality of differences existing in the 1860s and since. It was not until the 1950s that the South started developing educational and cultural institutions and populace that is on a par with the rest of the nation. But the states which spend less per capita on educational and cultural institutions, tend to have the poorest educational attainments of their citizens and they are mostly states of the deep South where values are still somewhat different from the North.
One hundred years later, many in America would come to this same conclusion and American manufacturing, to outcompete China and other Oriental cultures, have turned to highly complex, constantly innovative, and technically advanced processes.
Many people contest his 40 million number as being exaggerated. Even if true, opponents argue that they would be no more likely to take jobs that most Americans do not want at current wages or whose education does not make them qualified for the high tech jobs that are available. They argue that with 40 million additional American we would not replace many immigrants but would greatly increase the unemployment rate. Later, DeLay was convicted and sentenced to jail for money laundering and illegally spending and raising campaign funds. He was also reprimanded by the House Ethics Committee for unethical methods of fund raising for other earlier actions.
She was one of the leaders fighting the proposal to allow casino gambling in the state. Months later, the legislature passed a bill allowing 3 casinos in the state and the Governor signed it. No one disagreed with Ms. Tucker, but with the Great Recession diminishing state tax revenue, most legislators and the governor felt that the benefits outweighed the problems.
This is an example of a fascinating one-sided logic. At the time, the Chinese were, not the largest, but one of the large holders of American short term debt. It made sense to the Senator to borrow money from China to have military bands and orchestras and sports teams; it made sense to borrow money to give tax subsidies to wealthy corporations and all the other things. To him and many well off people, it certainly didn’t make sense. To the people who were unemployed or at risk of employment, or those who were empathetic with them, it made a great deal of sense.
Luis Vicente Gutiérrez is an American politician. He served as the U.S. Representative for Illinois's 4th congressional district from 1993 to 2019. From 1986 until his election to Congress, he served as a member of the Chicago City Council representing the 26th ward. He is a member of the Democratic Party and was a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus during his tenure in the House. In the 113th Congress, with his 20 years of service, Gutiérrez became, along with Bobby Rush, the longest serving member of the Illinois House delegation, and so was occasionally referred to as the unofficial "dean" of the delegation.
