David Cay Johnston

“Wage insurance works best when all workers are covered under the same plan and the coverage starts at the beginning of their…

— David Cay Johnston

“Pope Francis I, denouncing “an economy of exclusion,” has made inequality a centerpiece of his reign: Just as the commandment “Thou shalt…

— David Cay Johnston

“We have created a society in which all the nation’s economic gains flow to the top and the vast majority sees income…

— David Cay Johnston

Congress is supposed to fund the IRS, and it has been steadily reducing the number of auditors and tax collectors the IRS…

— David Cay Johnston

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Halliburton’s is a more extreme example, one in which a powerful and wealthy company transcends national borders so thoroughly that it is…

— David Cay Johnston

“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

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

“Social Security gives concrete expression to widely held and time-honored American commitments. Grounded in values of shared responsibility and concern for all…

— David Cay Johnston

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

“Part of this is related to the vast apparatus created to administer the criminal-justice system; part is related to the new laws…

— David Cay Johnston

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

Senior executives can, after a fashion, get a portion of their pay tax-free. You defer part of your income and not have…

— David Cay Johnston

The British use a system where the profits a corporation reports to shareholders is what they pay taxes on. Whereas in America…

— David Cay Johnston

“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

“Economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings. —Franklin D. Roosevelt”

— David Cay Johnston

“The Nobel Prize–winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, who was the chief economist of the World Bank at the time, called the food riots…

— David Cay Johnston

“Before Ms. magazine was a gleam in Gloria Steinem’s eye, men had quite a deal. Married middle-class men often controlled the purse…

— David Cay Johnston