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Brasil, Mexico, and Russia. ...They all have growing, and seemingly intractable, poverty at the bottom.

— David Cay Johnston Free Lunch (2007)

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We have a president of the United States who is not a loyal citizen.

David Cay Johnston, "It's Even Worse Than You Think (2018)

There are over 100,000 people in America who's job is to mine the public treasury, or the rules, for their benefit.

David Cay Johnston: The Perils Of Our Growing Inequality (2014)

In every place where there is no real tax system, such as Honduras or Afghanistan, there is no widespread wealth.

Perfectly Legal (2005)

To the addicted, money is like cocaine: Too much is never enough.

Free Lunch (2007)

As long as there aren't riots in the streets, you can sell your goods in other countries.

David Cay Johnston: The Perils Of Our Growing Inequality (2014)

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We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook (1962)

It is better to be poor and walk in integrity than to be stupid and speak lies.

Solomon

If a poor person envies a rich person, he is no better than the rich person.

Leo Tolstoy

The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.

Emil Cioran The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

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