David Cay Johnston

“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

Donald Trump ran for office complaining that at $19 trillion, the US debt was completely out of control, and yet what he's…

— David Cay Johnston

“the weakness of the middle class is holding back tax receipts, especially because those at the top are so adroit in avoiding…

— David Cay Johnston

“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

“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

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

“The worst proposals are to radically transform Social Security by privatizing, which would put people at the mercy of the stock and…

— David Cay Johnston

“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

“Today the United States is by far the most unequal rich democracy in the world.”

— David Cay Johnston

“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

“1969 a Republican president proposed a Family Assistance Plan that would have guaranteed a basic income for all American families. Editorial opinion…

— David Cay Johnston

“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

“Women run a majority of nonprofit organizations with budgets under $1 million. But as budgets grow, the ranks of women shrink.”

— David Cay Johnston

“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

“In 2008, one in a hundred American adults was behind bars. Just what manner of people does our prison policy reveal us…

— David Cay Johnston

“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

“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

“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

“No natural forces determine income, wealth, and the quality of human life. We make the decisions about who will prosper and who…

— David Cay Johnston

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

“No other modern country gives corporations the unfettered power found in America to gouge customers, shortchange workers and erect barriers to fair…

— David Cay Johnston

“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

“The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons…

— David Cay Johnston

“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

“a massive, malign indifference to people of color is at work.”

— David Cay Johnston