Economic Regression Quotes

Nothing could be more regressive than carbon taxes.

The conservative goal has been the Third Worldization of the United States: an increasingly underemployed, lower-wage work-force; a small but growing moneyed class that pays almost no taxes; the privatization or elimination of human services; the elimination of public education for low-income people; the easing of restrictions against child labor; the exporting of industries and jobs to low-wage, free-trade countries; the breaking of labor unions; and the elimination of occupational safety and environmental controls and regulations.

Socialism is a return to primitive conditions.

The only direction Obama has the economy moving is backward.

Any society that entails the strengthening of the state apparatus by giving it unchecked control over the economy, and re-unites the polity and the economy, is an historical regression. In it there is no more future for the public, or for the freedoms it supported, than there was under feudalism.

In my mind globalization means returning the industrial revolution back to square one.

There is a respectable body of economic thought that holds that casino gambling is actually economically regressive to a state and a community.

I'm going to create a - the kind of a country that we were from the standpoint of industry. We used to be there. We've given it up. We've become very, very sloppy.