The way to turn our economy around is not by making rich people poorer, it's by making poor people richer.
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We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well.
We can't just cut our way to prosperity. Even as we look for ways to reduce deficits over the long term, we must grow the economy in a way that strengthens the middle class and everyone willing to work hard to get into it.
I don't mind the rich getting richer, but the poor shouldn't be getting poorer, and there should be more people moving into the middle class.
The middle class creates us rich people, not the other way around.
No matter how wealthy a few plutocrats get, we can never drive a great national economy. Only a thriving middle class can do that.
The rich don't exploit the poor. They just out-compete them.
Contrary to popular belief. It's much wiser to take money from the poor than the rich.
The key to wealth is not what we earn. It is in what is spent on us.
All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting 'the rich' to pay 'their fair share' is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics.
Massive inequality, we have learned, isn't the best way to run an economy after all. And when you think about it, it's also profoundly ugly.
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