Skip to content

Quotes from The Fine Print — David Cay Johnston

born 1948 United States

← All quotes by David Cay Johnston

7 quotes

America has been transformed from a land of growing economic plenty into a hollow shell.

The Fine Print (2013)

Citizens United is to the expansion of corporate power what the big bang is to the beginning of existence...

The Fine Print (2013)

If... immortal, amoral and greed-driven people walked the earth, we would have to rewrite our laws governing property.

The Fine Print (2013)

In just a third of a century, the widespread liquidity that nourished the economy—reliable streams of cash going to workers and owners alike—has... dried up.

The Fine Print (2013)

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)

[S]tate and local governments alone spend at least $70 billion a year of taxpayer's money to subsidize factories, office buildings [etc.]... $900 per year for a family of four.

The Fine Print (2013)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: David Cay Johnston (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.