Backwards Quote by Paul Ryan

Progressive taxation can offset the effect of growing inequality.

— Winnie Byanyima

Those on the downside of rising economic inequality generally do not want government policies that look like handouts. They typically do not want the…

— Robert J. Shiller

There is, happily, a non-redistributive approach to address income inequality - one that doesn't rely upon government. It's to grow the pie. That is,…

— Andrew Yang

The more one considers the matter, the clearer it becomes that redistribution is in effect far less a redistribution of free income from the…

— Bertrand de Jouvenel

Income inequality matters more on a day-to-day basis. Wealth matters more for political influence.

— Thomas Pogge

The triumph of economic liberalization has coincided with a sharp increase in income inequality.

— Chrystia Freeland

I trace the inequality to a particular set of decisions that we took when we lowered the tax rate from 91% down to very…

— Joseph Stiglitz

“The inexorable rise of inequality can be countered at the top by higher taxes on the highest earners who have captured so much more…

— Robert J. Gordon

The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior of those who are not,…

— James F. Cooper

“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

The past few decades of widening inequality can be summed up as significant income and wealth gains for those at the very top and…

— Janet Yellen

Inequality is not so much a cause of economic, political, and social processes as a consequence. Some of these processes are good, some are…

— Angus Deaton