Character Quote by 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 working lives.…

— 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 not kill”…

— 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 stagnation or…

— 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 has at…

— 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 decline to…

— 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 person ever…

— 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 for up…

— 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 job.”

— 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 not an…

— 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 the war and 1973.”

— 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 a one-time…

— 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 members of…

— David Cay Johnston