George Carlin Quotes

On GOP Tax Cuts: They'll take food out of the mouths of children to give tax cuts to the wealthiest.

If you want poor people to work you restore their incentive by giving them less, such as by cutting social services. If you want rich people to work you restore their incentive by giving them more, such as by cutting taxes.

When you have a tax system in which most of the exemptions and the lowest rates benefit the richest, all in the name of job creation, all that happens is that the rich get richer.

The Clinton administration cared a lot about the middle class and the poor. But it also cared a lot - too much, in retrospect - about the rich.

I want to help the middle class.

I'm a capitalist, and I believe that universal basic income is necessary for capitalism to continue.

It may at first appear strange, but I believe it is true, that I cannot by means of money raise a poor man and enable him to live much better than he did before, without proportionably depressing others in the same class.

If the economy is growing fast, there is call for a distributing income from the rich to the poor to to put in place social safety nets.

In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.

The distribution of wealth is not determined by nature. It is determined by policy.

The "trickle-down" theory: the principle that the poor, who must subsist on table scraps dropped by the rich, can best be served by giving the rich bigger meals.

At a time of massive inequality, I think we can raise substantial sums of revenue to address the needs of working families, the elderly, and the children, by asking those people who are doing phenomenally well to start paying their fair share.

I don't believe in a redistribution of wealth.

Spreading the wealth punishes success while setting America on course for a greater dependency on government.

Conservatives believe the economy functions better if the rich have more money and everyone else has less. But they're wrong. It's just the opposite.

Americans are falling out of the middle class, not into it. And they deserve relief. I absolute support extending the Bush tax cuts for those who work the hardest and invest the most in our economy - the real drivers of American growth, the middle class.

Safety nets for the poor and disadvantaged are a must for any compassionate nation, but encouraging folks to go on the dole when not absolutely necessary is disgraceful.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

Let's means-test benefits - let's means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.

Sometime, while I wasn't paying attention, trickle-down economics got respectable.

Bush is giving the rich a tax cut instead of putting that cut in the pockets of working people.

Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's not fair.

The tax relief that this Congress has given now in terms of four tax cuts has overwhelmingly gone to the people at the very top of the income scale in America.

There is a legitimate concern about wealth distribution in the United States, but the answer is not to scapegoat any individual who makes over $200,000 per year and to try to sell the fraud that the government can equitably take the money of those who have earned it and give it to those who haven't.

This administration and the leadership in Congress appear to be intent on valuing wealth over work, thereby placing working families at a distinct disadvantage.