How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
One of the things I have been preaching around the world is collecting taxes in an equitable manner, especially from the elites.
When you have a tax system in which most of the exemptions and the lowest rates benefit the richest, all in the name of job creation, all that happens is that the rich get richer.
A lot of wealthy people, they don't realize they have the alternatives of spending the money for good.
Since I was first nominated to serve as Treasury Secretary, I have been maligned as taking advantage of others' hardships in order to earn a buck. Nothing could be further from the truth.
The rich don't exploit the poor. They just out-compete them.
As the rich consume more and more, they are clearly not going to want to downgrade their own status.
There's always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little - and it's always somebody else.
With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.
The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
Fairness dictates that the highest income people should pay the greatest share of taxes, and they do.