Quotes About Wealthy

There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.

If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.

By the middle of the 1990s, the United States had the smallest and fastest-shrinking middle class among seventeen industrialized nations,[45] and it is hardly new for reports to state today as they do that the U.S. middle class still fails to compete well with those other nations (even though the U.S. wealthy are nearly without parallel).

A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death.

Social reform aims to improve the condition of the poor by worsening the condition of the rich.

Wealthy old woman + devious imagination - restraint = Aunt Agatha

the money that was scattered around me like an uninteresting garnish.

You have to take away some of tax breaks for the wealthy, and you have to cut back on some entitlements. Because, unless we do all of these things, it just doesn't work. And what's good theater and what's good politics isn't necessarily good economic policy.

Economics ultimately is political economy. To claim that it is "disinterested" and scientific is to cover up its political motives. The entire history of political economy has centered on the conflict between reformers seeking to free society from rentiers – landlords, creditors and monopolists – and the reaction by these wealthy vested interests to maintain their grip on the status quo that favors them.

Despite today's notions of Atlantic City as a vacation spot for the wealthy, the resort could never have survived by catering to the upper class. It was the lower-middle and lower classes that were the lifeblood of Atlantic City. They comprised the great mass of visitors to the resort and the rates of most rooms were structured for them.

Over the last fifty years, poverty has come to be seen not just as an economic failing but also as a moral one, prompting a pervasive suspicion that the poor are secretly living cushy lives on government benefits. A Pew poll found that wealthy Americans mostly agreed that "poor people today have it easy because they can get government benefits without doing anything in return.

As hostility toward government spread in America, there have been determined efforts to cut taxes, particularly for the wealthy, and then "starve the beast"--using reduced revenue to justify cuts in services for the disadvantaged. This is both disingenuous and cruel, as well as out of step with the advanced world.

But most studies have found that cheating of public assistance programs is quite modest, perhaps 2 percent—less than tax evasion by the wealthy.

their fellow citizens was to deny them free health care, cut the taxes of the wealthy, privatize what few public assets remained and oppose any regulation of a rampant free market that was benefiting the few, rather than the many.

What we witness at the fea is not just a celebration of the multiplicity of modernities but also, and more importantly, a critical commentary on local structures of inequality that take for granted that both tradition and modernity are the prerogatives of the high ranking and wealthy.

Wealthy people attract critics like wealthy ships attract pirates.

If a producer was casting the role of an old-time radio newsman who could hear and identify with the heartbeat of Middle America, care a little about a lot of things, appreciate the value of hard work, marvel at the eccentricities of mankind, admire the scrappy, and respect the wealthy—

Wealthy Americans who benefit hugely from a system rigged in their favor react with hysteria to anyone who points out just how rigged the system is.

Rich people are another species. Sort of lost in their own way. It's a good thing they have country clubs and shit because it keeps them kinda corralled up in one place.

Menahem exacted this money from each of the wealthy men of Israel—fifty shekels of silver from each man—to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria withdrew and did not remain in the land.