Corporations do not pay taxes, they collect them, passing the burden to consumers as a cost of production. And corporate taxation is a feast of rent-seeking - a cornucopia of credits, exemptions and other subsidies conferred by the political class on favored, and grateful, corporations.
Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.
Prior to 1940, the affluent and the middle class began to converge, but after 1979, the economic gap between the middle class and affluent widened significantly.
The working classes in England were always sentimental, and the Irish and Scots and Welsh. The upper-class English are the stiff-upper-lipped ones. And the middle class. They're the ones who are crippled emotionally because they can't move up, and they're desperate not to move down.
The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.
The Democrats have pretty much given up on the white working class. That would require a commitment to economic issues, and that's not their concern.
Promoting dependency is the Democratic Party's vocation. It knows that almost all entitlements are forever, and those that are not - e.g., the lifetime eligibility for welfare, repealed in 1996 - are not for the middle class.
Class is not a fixed designation in this country. We are an upwardly mobile society with a lot of movement between income groups.
As public schools deteriorate, the upper-middle class and wealthy send their kids to private ones. As public pools and playgrounds decay, the better-off buy memberships in private tennis and swimming clubs. As public hospitals decline, the well-off pay premium rates for private care.
A strong economy depends on a strong middle class, but George Bush has put the middle class in a hole, and John McCain has a plan to keep digging that hole with George Bush's shovel.
The middle class has disappeared. We have a highway to poverty and no roads coming out.
You don't have a very motivated working class, it starts to affect the dynamics of the economy. If workers are disenchanted and disenfranchised, productivity losses will go along with that.
When I ascended from the depths of the working class to the middle class, the higher I got, the more dishonesty I found.
For many centuries Chinese society has been free of class distinctions such as are found even in advanced democracies.
I used to bring my sketchbook to gym class and doodle, because I am a very uncoordinated athlete.
Kids and adults alike are having their curiosity drained away by boredom in class or the workplace, and by the unremitting background noise of a dumbed-down pop culture.
There are two main drivers of asset class returns - inflation and growth.
The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life.
Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.
Technology, outsourcing, a growing temp staffing industry, productivity efficiencies, have all replaced the middle class.
