Timothy Noah Quotes

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

I don't mind the rich getting richer, but the poor shouldn't be getting poorer, and there should be more people moving into the middle class.

While lawmakers should eschew soaking the rich, that is no excuse for soaking the poor.

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.

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.

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?'

Reagan's approach will achieve one of the basic goals of the conservative: Things remain basically the same. The rich stay rich and the poor stay poor, or even a little poorer.

We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor.

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

It isn't the rich people's fault that poor people are poor. Poor people who get an education and work hard in this country will stop being poor. That should be the goal for all poor people everywhere.

I have a question, a question for the president: Do you hate all rich people, or just rich people who don't contribute to your campaign? Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?

The middle class has just fallen further and further behind the rich.

Republicans look after the rich, and Democrats focus on the needs of the middle class. Neither of them looks after the poor.

The biggest problem is that the rich people paying the bills do not share the same goals as the poor people they are trying to help. The wealthy have weak incentives to get the right amount of the right thing to those who need it; the poor are in no position to complain if they don’t.

The central issue of our time remains the fact that the rich are getting richer and the poor, poorer.

No one should have more than five times the wealth of the poorest person.

I don't think they [Congress] ought to balance their budget on the backs of the poor.

If you have more rich people and more poor people and fewer people in the middle, what you lose is democracy.

I don't dislike people with a lot of money, but richer people need tax relief less than others.

For the good of Spain, I should like there to be rather fewer rich people and rather fewer poor.

It is not the difficulty of the problem which we have; it is the fact that the rich people of this country -- and by rich people I mean the super-rich -- will not allow us to solve the problems, or rather the one little problem that is afflicting this country, because in order to cure all of our woes it is necessary to scale down the big fortunes, that we may scatter the wealth to be shared by all of the people.

The competition of the poor takes away from the reward of the rich.

Nobody talks about the poor. Everybody talks about the middle class and just kinda want to ignore that the poor exist. And you cannot ignore that they exist if you want to help them.

I suspect the Left's obsession with raising tax rates is not about helping the poor or middle class or about lowering the budget deficit, but about tearing down the rich.

My message to David Cameron, as the head of our government, is to seriously think again about this Robin Hood tax, the tax to help the poor by taking a little bit from the rich.