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Viewed properly in the context of their times, the last forty-four presidents all pursued policies that they believed would make for a better America tomorrow.
It's Even Worse Than You Think (2018)
A government that takes 90 cents out of each dollar above a threshold, as... in the Eisenhower years, is deciding to limit the wealth that people can accumulate.
Perfectly Legal (2005)
Of each dollar people earned in 2005, the top 10 percent got 48.5¢... the greatest share of income pie since 1929, just before the Roaring Twenties collapsed into the Great Depression.
Free Lunch (2007)
The big banks, car makers, insurers and a host of Canadian, Chinese, European and Japanese companies all get to profit by pocketing the taxes withheld from American workers' paychecks.
The Fine Print (2013)
Legislatures passed these laws, presidents and governors signed them and the courts have endorsed them. In many cases they effectively gut state constitutional provisions and laws banning gifts to business.
The Fine Print (2013)
You delegate... you set certain boundaries. That's how tyrants operate.
The Tyrant Next Time (2019)
The Golden Rule has no place in the life of Donald Trump.
It's Even Worse Than You Think (2018)
There's a big attack going on in this country on public education. One of the Koch brothers... publicly advocated ending public education, because that's socialism.
David Cay Johnston: The Perils Of Our Growing Inequality (2014)
The electoral college has a second purpose... to have an ultimate backstop if the people went for a zealot, or a crazy person, to be president of the United States.
The Tyrant Next Time (2019)
For five months, Trump's campaign manager was Paul Manafort, advisor to dictators and near dictators including a pro-Moscow regime in Ukraine that was ousted by a popular uprising.
The Making of Donald Trump (2017)
Instead of a president of specific duties and constitutionally limited authority, Trump and his aides talk as if he is an absolute ruler, or should be, to whom all must bend the knee.
It's Even Worse Than You Think (2018)
Japan has mandatory unions. ...It's in their Constitution, and who wrote their Constitution?
The Tyrant Next Time (2019)
This is the anti-education presidency.
David Cay Johnston, "It's Even Worse Than You Think (2018)
People have to get registered to vote.
David Cay Johnston, "It's Even Worse Than You Think (2018)
Whether you love or hate Ronald Reagan, he was a great leader. He really fundamentally changed America.
David Cay Johnston; How The One Percent Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (2009)
The way that the Trump administration is cutting regulations... It's just "Go ahead and pollute.
David Cay Johnston, "It's Even Worse Than You Think (2018)
Who's a corporation prey to, Mammon?
David Cay Johnston: The Perils Of Our Growing Inequality (2014)
We're all interdependent. Don't think about exploiting and mining other people because we're all interdependent. ...You say that today and people say, "Oh, you're a socialist!"
The Tyrant Next Time (2019)
To pay for World War I... [t]he estate tax and the gift tax, which apply to wealth, were expanded and the income tax came to apply to a larger, but still minute, percentage of Americans.
Perfectly Legal (2005)
This book tells you what has either not been in the news or [has] been in it glancingly, about what they're doing to our government; and that effects your safety, your income, your future.
David Cay Johnston, "It's Even Worse Than You Think (2018)