Michael Parenti Quotes About Taxes

Quotes about: Taxes

• The conservative goal has been the Third Worldization of the United States: an increasingly underemployed, lower-wage work-force; a small but growing moneyed class that pays almost no taxes; the privatization or elimination of human services; the elimination of public education for low-income people; the easing of restrictions against child labor; the exporting of industries and jobs to low-wage, free-trade countries; the breaking of labor unions; and the elimination of occupational safety and environmental controls and regulations.

  Michael Parenti

  Country, Jobs, Children

• The rich have grown richer, but their tax rate has declined. The poor have grown poorer, but their taxes have increased.

  Michael Parenti

  Political, Rich, Poor

  "Democracy for the Few". Book by Michael Parenti, 1974.

• In almost every enterprise, government has provided business with opportunities for private gain at public expense. Government nurtures private capital accumulation through a process of subsidies, supports, and deficit spending and an increasingly inequitable tax system.

  Michael Parenti

  Opportunity, Government, Political

  "Democracy for the Few". Book by Michael Parenti, February 15, 2007.

• A nation as such does not give aid to another nation. More precisely, the common citizens of our country, through their taxes, give to the privileged elites of another country. As someone once said: foreign aid is when the poor people of a rich country give money to the rich people of a poor country.

  Michael Parenti

  Country, Rich Countries, People

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