“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
“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
“Today the United States is by far the most unequal rich democracy in the world.” — David Cay Johnston 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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 Bottom line Copy Share Image
“DOES EVERYONE IN AND NO ONE OUT INCLUDE ALL IMMIGRANTS? Immigrants contribute tens of billions of dollars to our economy, and the… — David Cay Johnston Immigration Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Inequality Copy Share Image
“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 Crime 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
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 Bureaucracy 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 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
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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“More than a fifth of our children live in poverty—the second worst of all the advanced economies, putting us behind countries like… — David Cay Johnston Children 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
“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 Adults Copy Share Image
“Corporations have grown so powerful that they have inverted the Roman equation: rather than corporations existing to serve the state, the state… — David Cay Johnston Corporations Copy Share Image
“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 Middle class Copy Share Image
