Robert Orben Quotes

Inflation appears to affect the entire electorate, though in reality those able to increase their earnings at the same rate of inflation would not suffer unduly.

Inflation is essentially antidemocratic.

Inflation outstripped real wages for people who work for pay from others.

Today, the Federal minimum wage purchases less than it has at any point in the last 50 years. Let me repeat: The Federal minimum wage purchases less than it has at any point in the last 50 years.

One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.

In order to have economic democracy you have to have equal access to property.

Unless you’re at the very top, you need a more equitable economy.

To me, democratic socialism means democracy. It means creating a government that represents all of us, not just the wealthiest people in the country.

By tying minimum wage to money supply, the poor's income would rise and fall with the rise and fall in money supply.

Governance should be designed as an equalizer. Democrats are more inclined towards working families and those who are struggling for a better life.

I believe in capitalism for everybody, not necessarily high finance but capitalism that works for the working men and women of this country who are out there paddling alone in America right now.

While prices of goods continue to rise, American worker's wages remain stagnant.

I just get the same stuff as I did before, but the price tag is much higher.

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.

The state of Alaska has a minimum wage which is higher than the federal level because our state leaders have made that determination.

No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty.

The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes.

It has now been over 7 years since Congress last raised the minimum wage to its current level of $5.15 per hour. Since that last increase, Congress's failure to adjust the wage for inflation has reduced the purchasing power of the minimum wage to record low levels.

I am a social democrat - I believe in pursuing greater equality and tackling social justice - but... you can't do that unless you have got a strong economy, unless you have got a vibrant business base earning the wealth that makes that possible.

We must keep prices under control to ensure that price increases do not exert a major negative impact on people's lives.

Market forces and capitalism by themselves aren't sufficient to ensure the common good and to limit the concentration of wealth at levels that are compatible with democratic ideals.

We cannot run a democracy without a strong middle class.

This is the middle-class equivalent of raising the minimum wage.

Inflation is one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.

A strong economy is perfectly consistent with concern for equity and economic justice.