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" Those who take their money abroad in an effort to avoid paying American taxes should lose their American citizenship. "
Robert Reich
Citizenship
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" It's true that redistributing income to the needy is politically easier in a growing economy than in a stagnant one. "
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" The job creators are members of America's vast middle class and the poor, whose purchases cause businesses to expand and invest. "
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" As digital equipment replaces the jobs of routine workers and lower-level professionals, technicians are needed to install, monitor, repair, test, and upgrade all the equipment. "
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" Community colleges are great bargains. They avoid the fancy amenities four-year liberal arts colleges need in order to lure the children of the middle class. "
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" In 1968, the sanitation workers of Memphis tried to form a union. The city resisted. The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. came to support them. That was where he lost his life. "
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" There is a crisis of public morality. Instead of policing bedrooms, we ought to be doing a better job policing boardrooms. "
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" The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality of result. It's equality of opportunity. There's a fundamental difference. "
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" The generosity of the super-rich is sometimes proffered as evidence they're contributing as much to the nation's well-being as they did decades ago when they paid a much larger share of their earnings in taxes. "
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" What someone is paid has little or no relationship to what their work is worth to society. "
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" The Tea Party is but one manifestation of a widening perception that the game is rigged in favor of the rich and powerful. "
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Tea
Game
Perception
" Public institutions are supported by all taxpayers and are available to all. "
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Institutions
Public
Available
" Can we please agree that in the real world, corporations exist for one purpose and one purpose only - to make as much money as possible, which means cutting costs as much as possible? "
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World
" Increasingly, corporate nationality is whatever a corporation decides it is. "
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" A Democratic president should propose a major permanent tax reduction on the middle class and working class. I suspect most of the public would find this attractive. "
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Working
Tax
" What are called 'public schools' in many of America's wealthy communities aren't really 'public' at all. In effect, they're private schools, whose tuition is hidden away in the purchase price of upscale homes there, and in the corresponding property taxes. "
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Taxes
Tuition
" We don't have to sit by and watch our meritocracy be replaced by a permanent aristocracy, and our democracy be undermined by dynastic wealth. "
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Sit
Democracy
Wealth
" Median wages of production workers, who comprise 80 percent of the workforce, haven't risen in 30 years, adjusted for inflation. "
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Who
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" Technology is changing so fast that knowledge about specifics can quickly become obsolete. That's why so much of what technicians learn is on the job. "
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Technology
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Job
" Money buys the most experienced teachers, less-crowded classrooms, high-quality teaching materials, and after-school programs. "
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Money
Teaching
" We never used to blink at taking a leadership role in the world. And we understood leadership often required something other than drones and bombs. We accepted global leadership not just for humanitarian reasons, but also because it was in our own best interest. We knew we couldn't isolate ourselves from trouble. There was no place to hide. "
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Best
Place
Leadership
" As income from work has become more concentrated in America, the super rich have invested in businesses, real estate, art, and other assets. The income from these assets is now concentrating even faster than income from work. "
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Art
Work
Rich
" Our moral authority is as important, if not more important, than our troop strength or our high-tech weapons. We are rapidly losing that moral authority, not only in the Arab world but all over the world. "
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Strength
World
Losing
" Before the rise of the nation-state, between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, the world was mostly tribal. Tribes were united by language, religion, blood, and belief. They feared other tribes and often warred against them. "
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World
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Language
" Freedom is the one value conservatives place above all others, yet time and again, their ideal of freedom ignores the growing imbalance of power in our society that's eroding the freedoms of most people. "
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Society
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Time
" During three decades from 1947 to 1977, the nation implemented what might be called a basic bargain with American workers. Employers paid them enough to buy what they produced. "
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Enough
Workers
Three
" In reality, most of America's poor work hard, often in two or more jobs. "
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Reality
America
Poor
" Obviously, personal responsibility is important. But there's no evidence that people who are poor are less ambitious than anyone else. In fact, many work long hours at backbreaking jobs. "
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Work
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" There will always be a business cycle, and white-collar workers will get hit in the next recession like they always do in recessions. "
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" A lot of attention has been going to social values - abortion, gay rights, other divisive issues - but economic values are equally important. "
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Rights
Important
Gay