Accepting Quote by Kevin Drum

Forgive me for noting that conservatives seem to believe that the rich will work harder if we give them more, and the poor will…

— E. J. Dionne

“As a broad generalization, liberals see income as a public good that is distributed, like crayons in a kindergarten class. If so-and-so didn’t get…

— Jonah Goldberg

Both the federal government and the states should go ahead and soak the rich to reduce inequality and raise money for health care, child…

— Annie Lowrey

The growing inequality of wealth and income distribution is both a moral and economic problem. If the wealthy are unwilling to pay more taxes,…

— Bruce Bartlett

I'd be very, very careful about falling prey to the things that liberals say about people, and that is rich people are automatically untrustworthy.…

— Rush Limbaugh

“Many ordinary Americans believe that “large differences in income are necessary for America’s prosperity,” as one standard survey question puts it.18 However, economists who…

— Larry M. Bartels

I believe that there should be a very much heavier progressive tax on very large incomes, a tax which should increase in a very…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Conservatives believe the economy functions better if the rich have more money and everyone else has less. But they're wrong. It's just the opposite.

— Robert Reich

I'm in favor of inequality if it comes about from people making great innovations that make us all better off. And I think those…

— Angus Deaton

So I'm not proposing anything radical. I just believe that anybody making over $250,000 a year should go back to the income tax rates…

— Barack Obama

Conservatives say if you don't give the rich more money, they will lose their incentive to invest. As for the poor, they tell us…

— George Carlin

When the topic is growing income inequality, it's hard to prettify an imbalance between the rich and everybody else, so instead, conservatives try to…

— Timothy Noah