Michael Hudson Quotes About Wealth

Quotes about: Wealth

• There are many ways to create economic suicide on a national level. The major way through history has been through indebting the economy. Debt always expands to reach a point where it cannot be paid by a large swathe of the economy. This is the point where austerity is imposed and ownership of wealth polarizes between the One Percent and the 99 Percent.

  Michael Hudson

  Suicide, Wealth, Economic

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

• When people are running up more and more debt for housing, they call that "real wealth." It exposes what's wrong in the mainstream economics and why most of the economics that justifies austerity programs and economic shrinkage is in the textbooks is not scientific. Junk economics denies the role of debt and denies the fact that the economic system we have now is dysfunctional.

  Michael Hudson

  Running, Real, People

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

• If you're a wealthy heir with a trust fund, and you sell stocks, make your 10% gains since Donald Trump, and then you buy other stocks, you can avoid paying taxes. And if your accountant registers your wealth offshore in a Panamanian fund, like Russian kleptocrats do - and as more and more Americans do - you don't have to pay any tax at all, because it's not American income, it's foreign income in an enclave without an income tax.

  Michael Hudson

  Income, Paying Taxes, Heirs

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

• Trump's claims that he's making taxes more democratic for the people, but it actually is a vast sucking of income and wealth upward.

  Michael Hudson

  People, Income, Wealth

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

• When there's deflation, it means that although most markets are shrinking and people have less to spend, the 1% that hold the 99% in debt are getting all the growth in wealth and income. Deflation means that income is being transferred to the 1%, that is, to the creditors and property owners.

  Michael Hudson

  Mean, People, Growth

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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