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This takes us to the central neoclassical economics story of the supposed efficiency of a competitive, capitalist, market system that goes back to the eighteenth century and Adam Smith, with little fundamental variation to today. Codified ...more
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Louis D. Brandeis
“We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both.”
Louis D. Brandeis

Joe Biden
“Don't tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I'll tell you what you value.”
Joe Biden

Adam Smith
“It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.”
Adam Smith

Jim Wallis
“A budget is a moral document.”
Jim Wallis

Lester Carl Thurow
“Probably no country has ever had as large a shift in the distribution of wealth [as what we've seen in the U.S. in the last 30 years] without having gone through a revolution or losing a major war.”
Lester Thurow

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