Joseph Stiglitz Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• We could have saved Wall Street without putting our future in jeopardy. I predicted that there would be all-around consequences - in the long run as well as in the short run. People are now saying we can't afford health care reform because we spent all the money on the banks. So, in effect, we're saying that it's better that we give rich bankers a couple of trillion than giving ordinary Americans access to health care.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Running, Wall, Couple

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. May 27, 2011.

• We could, of course, always make the payments, simply by printing more money - we simply promise to pay people by giving them dollar bills - but that could set off inflation.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  People, Giving, Promise

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• Now it is unambiguously clear that trickle-down economics does not work. But what does that mean? That means we have to structure our economic policies to make sure that we have shared prosperity. And you don't do that by giving a tax cut to the big winners and raising taxes on those who have not done very well. Your economic policy has to respond to the way our economic system has been working.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Mean, Cutting, Giving

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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