Thomas Peterffy Quotes

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

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.

Contrary to popular belief. It's much wiser to take money from the poor than 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.

Everyone wants the rich to pay more in taxes.

Put simply, the rich pay a lot of taxes as a total percentage of taxes collected, but they don't pay a lot of taxes as a percentage of what they can afford to pay, or as a percentage of what the government needs to close the deficit gap.

The rich are few everywhere, the poor many.

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

They are all afraid to face high taxation to pay for the war. The rich won't stand it—and the poor can't stand it.

I don’t have anything against the rich. I just want some of their money to pay for essential services.

For those of you who don't understand Reaganomics, it's based on the principle that the rich and the poor will get the same amount of ice. In Reaganomics, however, the poor get all of theirs in winter.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

When President Obama speaks about raising taxes on the rich, he speaks about high-income employees and small business owners, not entrepreneurs who build big businesses.

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

If we're not going to tax the rich anymore, we're going to create class warfare.

Growing richer every day, for as rich and poor are relative terms, when the rich are growing poor, it is pretty much the same as if the poor were growing rich. Nobody is poor when the distinction between rich and poor is destroyed.

Philanthropists today want input into how their monies are being deployed. The big question is, can governments use this insight to sell the rich the idea of paying more tax rather than spend more on charitable giving?

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

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.

Governments, of course, can - and do - soak the rich.

I'm still a communist in the sense that I don't believe the world will survive with the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer - I think that the pressures will get so tremendous that the social contract will just come apart.

The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich.

The most insidious thing about trickle-down economics is not the claim that if the rich get richer, everyone is better off. It is the claim made by those who oppose any increase in the minimum wage that if the poor get richer, that will be bad for the economy. This is nonsense.

When a liberal says they are going to soak the rich, the middle class will get drenched.

Oligarchy is to the advantage of the rich. Democracy to the advantage of the poor.