Robert Reich Quotes About Middle Class

Quotes about: Middle Class

• No economy can continue to function when the vast middle class and everybody else don't have enough purchasing power to buy what the economy is capable of producing without going deeper and deeper into debt.

  Robert Reich

  Class, Debt, Enough

  "Why Robert Reich cares so passionately about economic inequality". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. October 15, 2013.

• A smaller government reflecting the needs of the middle class and poor is superior to a big government reflecting the needs of the privileged and powerful.

  Robert Reich

  Powerful, Government, Class

• The only way America can reduce the long-term budget deficit, maintain vital services, protect Social Security and Medicare, invest more in education and infrastructure, and not raise taxes on the working middle class is by raising taxes on the super rich.

  Robert Reich

  Class, America, Long

  "Why We Must Raise Taxes on the Rich" by Robert Reich, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 4, 2011.

• America's real business leaders understand unless or until the middle class regains its footing and its faith, capitalism remains vulnerable.

  Robert Reich

  Real, Class, America

  "Real Business Leaders Want to Save Capitalism" by Robert Reich, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 19, 2014.

• We already have an annual wealth tax on homes, the major asset of the middle class. It's called the property tax. Why not a small annual tax on the value of stocks and bonds, the major assets of the wealthy?

  Robert Reich

  Home, Class, Why Not

  "The Rise of the Non-Working Rich" by Robert Reich, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 15, 2014.

• Inequality is bad for everyone, not just the middle class and the poor.

  Robert Reich

  Class, Poor, Middle

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I am not an economic determinist. If I were, I would throw up my hands; I just would not bother. I think it's wrong to be an economic determinist. I think it's wrong to simply say, "Well, inevitably, if you're poor, you're going to get a lousy education; if you're lower-middle class, the cards are going to be stacked against you, and you'll probably never get anywhere".

  Robert Reich

  Thinking, Hands, Class

  "Robert Reich: Making people laugh about economic inequality". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. October 16, 2013.

• Cutting taxes is not bad. But if you cut taxes on the wealthy, which is what they wanted to do, you're not helping people who need better schools and better infrastructure and healthcare. You're basically robbing the middle class and the poor to provide tax cuts to the rich.

  Robert Reich

  School, Cutting, Class

  "American Experience", www.pbs.org.

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