"We already have an annual wealth tax on homes, the major asset of the middle class. It's called the property tax. Why not a small annual tax on the value of stocks and bonds, the major assets of the wealthy?"

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Source : "The Rise of the Non-Working Rich" by Robert Reich, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 15, 2014.

Robert Reich

#Home Quotes #Class Quotes #Why Not Quotes

“I believe there are too many children who need loving parents to deny one group of people adoption rights. A child will benefit from a healthy, loving home, whether the parents are gay or not.”
“You know, I've seen a lot of people walkin' 'roundWith tombstones in their eyesBut the pusher don't careAh, if you live or if you die”
“I will continue to help the political causes I believe in in any way I can.”
“Sadly, today there are only a few remaining speakers of kakadu or gagadju. The work, then, is concerned with my feelings about this place, its landscape, its change of seasons, its dry season and its wet, its cycle of life and death the melodic material in Kakadu, as in much of my recent music, was suggested by the contours and rhythms of Aboriginal chant.”
“By ignorance the truth is known.”
“My immune system has always been overly welcoming of germs. It's far too polite, the biological equivalent of a southern hostess inviting y'all nice microbes to stay awhile and have some artichoke dip.”

Source : A. J. Jacobs (2012). “Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection”, p.72, Simon and Schuster
“I am surrounded by my family, my beloved grandchildren, and my pack of dogs.”
“People fail you, children disappoint you, thieves break in, moths corrupt, but an Order of the British Empire goes on for ever.”

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