History Quote by Dean Graziosi

“The share of income going to the rich remained remarkably constant from the mid-1940s through the 1970s and then began to escalate rapidly. For…

— Larry M. Bartels

“Between 1981 and 1986, the top income tax rate was cut from 70 percent to 28 percent. Meanwhile, taxes on the bottom four-fifths of…

— Jane Mayer

“the Reagan years "produced one of the most dramatic redistributions of income in the nation's history....The income of families in the bottom decile fell…

— Thomas B. Edsall

“Between 1971 and 2001, while the median wage and salary income of the average worker showed literally no gain, the income of the top…

— Barack Obama

Incomes went up for everybody. Manufacturing jobs went up also in the 1990s, if we're actually going to look at the facts.

— Hillary Clinton

Over the period from 1988 to 2005, the income share of the top five percent has grown by about 3.5 percent of global household…

— Thomas Pogge

For the three decades after WWII, incomes grew at about 3 percent a year for people up and down the income ladder, but since…

— Robert H. Frank

“if we consider the total growth of the US economy in the thirty years prior to the crisis, that is, from 1977 to 2007,…

— Thomas Piketty

Regarding the Economy & Taxation: America's most successful achievers do pay a higher share of the total tax burden. The top one percent income…

— Rush Limbaugh

“But the 1970s kicked off a three-decade-long “tax-cutting spree” during which the wealthiest 1 percent succeeded in getting their average effective federal tax rate…

— Jane Mayer

Beginning in 1981, when government policies began to undermine the liberal consensus of the previous generation, wealth began to diverge. It is more unevenly…

— Heather Cox Richardson

“Some countries in earlier eras achieved rising per capita incomes but, when the source of the rise had been played out, were unable to…

— Edward A. Hudson