Capitalism Quote by Jim Stanford

The best way to help the poor is to slash taxes and allow savings, investment, and creation of jobs to proceed unhampered.

— Murray Rothbard

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

— Abraham Lincoln

Poor people want to be poor; if they just worked harder they could have more.

— Anthony B Pinn

You alleviate poverty by trickle-down economics.

— Jacob Rees-Mogg

The way the [welfare] programs are organized, poor people are only paid to do things that are counter-productive - such as breaking up their…

— Thomas Sowell

The poor of the world cannot be made rich by the redistribution of wealth. Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty,…

— P. J. O'Rourke

You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.

— George Orwell

Most poor people are not on welfare. . . I know they work. I'm a witness. They catch the early bus. They work every…

— Jesse Jackson

The vital consideration of incentives is almost systematically overlooked in the proposals of agitators for more and bigger government welfare schemes. We should all…

— Henry Hazlitt

Trickle down economics is a fraud. Giving tax breaks to the rich and large corporations does not create jobs. It simply makes the rich…

— Bernie Sanders

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot bring about prosperity by…

— Abraham Lincoln