“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 Federal government Copy Share Image
“Although Social Security’s benefits are modest, they are extremely important for the vast majority of beneficiaries, especially those with low and moderate… — David Cay Johnston Health Copy Share Image
“the rapid growth of a larger prison system creates an expanded and more powerful system of “correctional” administration, which tends to have… — David Cay Johnston Crime 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
“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
“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
“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
“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 Fair play Copy Share Image
“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 Health Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Politicians like to talk about the income tax when they talk about overtaxing the rich, but the income tax is just one… — David Cay Johnston Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
“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 American families Copy Share Image
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 Book Copy Share Image
“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 Economics Copy Share Image
“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 Health Copy Share Image
“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 Money Copy Share Image
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 Business Copy Share Image
“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 Economics Copy Share Image
“Longer sentences also build incarceration rates and create a chronic condition of social incapacitation for those imprisoned, as they face severe restrictions… — David Cay Johnston Crime Copy Share Image
“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 Character Copy Share Image
“Having described the unprecedented scale of imprisonment in America, we may still ask: is America’s use of imprisonment really a justifiable (and… — David Cay Johnston Crime Copy Share Image
