Mark Meadows Quotes

I say I don't need a tax cut. It will not do me any more good. I can't buy more, I can't eat more, I can't do more, and I want it distributed among the ordinary people who work every day.

My premise is not to tax to destroy the wealth of the wealthy; it's to increase the wealth of the bottom and the middle class.

Having an economy that works for the 99% is achievable.

The way to turn our economy around is not by making rich people poorer, it's by making poor people richer.

I have committed my life to helping the poor, and I believe that if more companies followed Wal-Mart's lead in providing opportunity and savings to those who need it most, more Americans battling poverty would realize the American dream.

So tonight I propose one more step that I would rather not propose. I ask the most fortunate among us, those citizens earning over $100,000 per year, for one year, to pay an additional one percent on the income they receive.

We need to have the social investments by which to quote unquote distribute some of that wealth.

A good prince will tax as lightly as possible those commodities which are used by the poorest members of society ... staples without which human life could not exist.

We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well.

Every American has a right to food, housing, and health care - and we can afford to provide it if billionaires and big corporations pay their fair share.

Tax cuts that actually go to working-class, middle-class people, I'm not opposed to.

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.

The only way to have a better world and end poverty is by closing the gap between the top and the bottom.

I wish the city of San Francisco, bastion of liberalism, were more innovative when it comes to how to spread the wealth.

We need to make sure middle-class people are able to pay the bills. We need to make sure that poor people don't starve. Those are values, too.

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

Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America.

Taking responsible steps to reduce poverty is not merely a moral imperative but an economic one.

Alleviating poverty would be the Bank's overarching objective.

So when the only domestic social policy is tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthiest Americans, we say, 'Where is faith being put into action here?'

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

Having a decent share of the national wealth for the middle class is not bad for growth. It is actually useful both for equity and efficiency reasons.

Our main task is not to see that people of great wealth add to it, but that those without much money have a greater chance to earn some.

The idea that America is the best place in the world to start out poor, so long as you are willing to work hard, no longer seems to be true. One way of proving that is to ask how accurately your family's income when you were growing up predicted what your own would be. If the American dream were alive, your family's income would not predict your own that well…. Well, on that measure, America is now less the land of opportunity than France, than Germany, than Sweden, Canada, Finland, Norway and Denmark. The only other rich economy that the U.S. outscores in this respect is — you guessed it — the UK. Abolish the estate tax and America will be a serious contender for the bottom of the opportunity league.

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