Max Keiser Quotes

I've seen it with my own eyes: When government takes money from the poor and the middle class, everyone suffers.

He presented himself as the friend to Main Street America, and yet that aw-shucks persona ended up packaging policies and programs that were at times deeply injurious to the very people he swore to serve. After all, Reaganomics set in motion one of the largest wealth redistributions in American history, away from the poor and toward the rich.

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.

Rather than address the priorities of the middle class, the Ryan budget is an attack on American seniors, students, workers, and families - all for the sake of protecting loopholes for the wealthy and corporations that ship jobs overseas.

The middle class has no more to give. The poor have nothing. Let's get it from those who've got it.

The poor man who takes property by force is called a thief, but the creditor who can by legislation make a debtor pay a dollar twice as large as he borrowed is lauded as the friend of a sound currency. The man who wants the people to destroy the Government is an anarchist, but the man who wants the Government to destroy the people is a patriot.

American economic greatness has never trickled down from the top.

God, how patient are Thy poor! These corporations and masters of manipulation in finance heaping up great fortunes by a system of legalized extortion, and then exacting from the contributors-to whom a little means so much-a double share to guard the treasure!

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

I don't want to remember 2005 as a year that the government heaped unnecessary burdens upon American families. Stealing from the poor and middle class and giving to the rich, while increasing the deficit, is hardly responsible.

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

Obama seems to want to do something to damage rich people.

The Republicans are looking after the financial interests of the wealthiest individuals in this country.

It has always been more expensive for the poor to borrow money. We see this in everything from mortgage rates to credit cards.

At the same time, Republicans are pushing a $70 billion tax package that will overwhelmingly benefit the most wealthy Americans and actually increases the deficit by $16 billion.

Not surprisingly, some of the super-rich declined to join the Patriotic Millionaires when the Agenda Project reached out to them. At least two airily dismissed the Bush tax cuts for millionaires and above - which will cost well over $700 billion over the coming decade - as small potatoes.

Sadly, this is the same old Republican story of Robin Hood in reverse - tax cuts for the rich while programs for average and low income Americans suffer.

The middle class should not continue to foot the bill for tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires.

I don't believe in trickle-down economics. I don't think that people who have the most are inclined to share it, generally.

He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor.

Somebody has been cashing checks, and they've been bouncing back on us. And these people, the poor class of Negroes and the poor class of white people, they're getting tired of it.

No one should be richer than a ten millionaire and no one should be without a home.

Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries

That’s what Republicans are about—giving rich people tax breaks.

Politicians don't like to target benefits to poor people, because poor people don't contribute to their campaigns.