Tag: Theodore Roosevelt
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We Can Raise Taxes
The Politics and Economy are Aligned A survey of tax history, arguments for and against raising taxes, and an exhortation to tax the rich. Why We Need Taxes Unless you’re a disciple of Grover Norquist and want to drown government in a bathtub, you might see taxes as necessary for certain community needs like law and order,…
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John Bogle on Corporations
From “The Modern Corporation and the Public Interest,” a speech by John C. Bogle, Founder of the Vanguard Group, to the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, December 7, 2017, pp. 13-14 “. . . The enterprises that will endure are those that generate growing profits for their owners, something they do best only when they take…
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Malefactors of Great Wealth
Collected Quotes The Genius Of Capitalism Andrew Jackson on the Rich and Powerful It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes. Distinctions in society will always exist under every just government. Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth can not be…