Brad Schneider Quotes

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.

We have a lot of things we give away to people who are very, very wealthy in this country. And I'm not sure that our federal government can afford that.

You know, 600,000 millionaires get a Social Security check every month. I think there's enough waste and inefficiency.

Welfare for the wealthy simply can no longer be afforded.

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.

Richness in the world is a result of other people's poverty. We should begin to shorten the abyss between haves and have-nots.

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.

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

Government can’t deliver a free lunch to the country as a whole. It can, however, determine who pays for lunch.

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

It is unjust to let any starve, when we think it just to limit the wages of the poor, so as they can lay up nothing against the time of their impotency and want of work.

Tax cuts for the rich defund the critical public programs on which American families depend.

We must stop tax giveaways to rich corporations and developers while our schools are crumbling and people are losing their homes.

I try to deal with the poverty gap - to do policies for all of us rather than only for the wealthy.

Income inequity has to be addressed.

It's very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.

If the nation is rich but people are poor, the country cannot be strong, and society will be unstable.

We shouldn't be undermining Medicare for those who need it most in order to give more tax cuts to those who need them least.

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

There's always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little - and it's always somebody else.

The issue of wealth inequality is ... the great moral issue of our time.

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

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

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.

When you say fiscal responsibility, it seems to me that you really mean rich people keeping their money.