“Millions of Americans instinctively associate “poverty” with “black.” — David Cay Johnston Poverty Copy Share Image
“Social Security runs seamlessly and efficiently—less than 1 percent of its expenditures are for administration.” — David Cay Johnston Health Copy Share Image
“it shouldn’t be the case that the only route out of poverty is to get married to someone who also has a… — David Cay Johnston Marriage Copy Share Image
“a massive, malign indifference to people of color is at work.” — David Cay Johnston Indifference Copy Share Image
“The top 1 percent made almost thirteen times the average of the 90 percent in 1973, but by 2012 the ratio was 41 to 1.” — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
“Economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings. —Franklin D. Roosevelt” — David Cay Johnston Economics Copy Share Image
“Today the United States is by far the most unequal rich democracy in the world.” — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
“The reality is that Social Security is not a government handout. It is a benefit that is earned and paid for through… — David Cay Johnston Health Copy Share Image
“The real income reported on federal tax returns by the vast majority of Americans, the 90 percent, doubled between the end of… — David Cay Johnston Taxes Copy Share Image
“By 2012 the average income of the vast majority had shrunk to the equivalent of 45 weeks of 1973 income—a 13 percent… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
“One change we believe should be made is increasing the maximum amount of wages on which Social Security’s contributions are assessed. Contributions… — David Cay Johnston Health Copy Share Image
“Women run a majority of nonprofit organizations with budgets under $1 million. But as budgets grow, the ranks of women shrink.” — David Cay Johnston Feminism Copy Share Image
“The most immediate is that our middle class is too weak to support the consumer spending that has historically driven our economic… — David Cay Johnston Economic growth Copy Share Image
“Not surprisingly, this huge American “industry” has huge political clout—with the expansion of prosecutorial and correctional workers’ power, the growing number of… — David Cay Johnston Politics Copy Share Image
“I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being… — David Cay Johnston Compassion Copy Share Image
“No person, I think, ever saw a herd of buffalo, of which a few were fat and the great majority lean. No… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
“Generations of Americans built our Social Security system to provide basic and widespread protection against loss of earnings arising from the death,… — David Cay Johnston Death Copy Share Image
You, as a wage earner have to pay your taxes every year on your income for that year. So if you have… — David Cay Johnston Balance Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is a master salesman. And he creates his own reality. So if he tells you, "This is a middle-class tax… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
“the hollowing out of the middle class since the 1970s, a phenomenon interrupted only briefly in the 1990s, means that those families… — David Cay Johnston Business Copy Share Image
“It is no coincidence that pollution so often accompanies poverty. Imagine a cost-benefit analysis of siting an undesirable facility, such as a… — David Cay Johnston Poverty Copy Share Image
“In America, criminal justice policies have become a second line of defense, if you will, against individuals whose development has not been… — David Cay Johnston Criminal justice Copy Share Image
“The judicial mechanisms that states employ to accomplish programs of mass incarceration include laws and strategies of enforcement explicitly designed to imprison… — David Cay Johnston Crime Copy Share Image
What the Trump tax plan is a plan to give tiny little tax cuts to most Americans, raise taxes on perhaps one… — David Cay Johnston Children Copy Share Image
When you say the tax system benefits the rich, there are a lot of people who respond, "That can't be true, look… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
“The anthropologist Elliot Liebow observed it in the men he chronicled in Tally’s Corner, his insightful 1967 book on the lives and… — David Cay Johnston Racism Copy Share Image
In 1990, about 1 percent of American corporate profits were taken in tax havens like the Cayman Islands. By 2002, it was… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
“Two scholars who served on the staff of President Reagan’s 1982 National Commission on Social Security Reform explain that Social Security does… — David Cay Johnston Federal government Copy Share Image
One of the tax systems in the US is for wage earners. The government takes money from them out of each paycheck… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
“In many of these subsidy programs, no jobs are created. Instead the state income taxes are given to companies that agree to… — David Cay Johnston Kansas city Copy Share Image
“Hitler, Stalin, and Pol Pot all employed mass imprisonment, each presiding over a process that arrested and incarcerated millions. Such systems are… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
“inequality is associated with more frequent and more severe boom-and-bust cycles that make our economy more volatile and vulnerable.” — David Cay Johnston Inequality Copy Share Image
“You’ll learn in this book how other courts, including the United States Supreme Court, have diminished the rights of consumers, voters and… — David Cay Johnston Books Copy Share Image
“Without Social Security, the official U.S. poverty rate among the aged would jump from 9 percent to nearly 50 percent—about the same… — David Cay Johnston Health Copy Share Image
“We should also remember that punishment and inequality are intimately linked—that the causality runs in both directions. Disparities in punishment reflect socioeconomic… — David Cay Johnston Inequality Copy Share Image
“The worst of these are laws in nineteen states that let companies pocket the state income taxes withheld from their workers’ paychecks… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
I dislike paying taxes as much as anyone, but yes, taxes are the price of civilization. There is no America without taxes.… — David Cay Johnston Burden Copy Share Image
“Equality works. Extreme inequality does not. Out of the grotesque opportunism that we’ve seen among owners of great wealth in the past… — David Cay Johnston Equality Copy Share Image
“You will even read about an insurance company owned by one of America’s most admired billionaires that asked a paralyzed man to… — David Cay Johnston Billionaires Copy Share Image
“Today, the United States has the highest rate of imprisonment of any nation in the world—possibly the highest rate in the history… — David Cay Johnston Imprisonment Copy Share Image
