While the wealthiest families completely benefit from the tax cuts targeted towards the upper brackets, middle-income families were hit with the unwelcome surprise of higher taxes on tax day.
Andrew Fagan
We are the most powerful nation in the world, but we`re not the only nation in the world. We are not the only people in the world. We are an important people, the wealthiest, the most powerful and, to a great extent, generous. But we are part of the world...
Studs Terkel
The State of the Union may look rosy from the White House balcony or the suites of George Bush`s wealthiest donors. But hardworking Americans will see through this president`s efforts to wrap his radical agenda with a compassionate ribbon.
Howard Dean
So when the only domestic social policy is tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthiest Americans, we say, `Where is faith being put into action here?`
Jim Wallis
Simply cutting the taxes for America`s wealthiest families is clearly not creating the needed new jobs, and that strategy is unlikely to succeed in the future.
Tim Johnson
Sadly, the President`s budget proposal for the upcoming year once again puts cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans over addressing our country`s severe fiscal problems.
Carl Levin
I used to think like Moses. That knocked me down for a couple years and put me in prison. Then I start thinking like Job. Job waited and became the wealthiest and richest man ever `cause he believed in God.
James Brown
For people to walk in feces in the wealthiest country in the world is an abomination -- for whatever reason, ... When the tsunami hit, we got there in 48 hours, yet it took days to get to New Orleans. What does that say?
James Harris
At one time in Pittsburgh, when Rachel Mellon Walton`s father and grandfather were creating wealth, Pittsburgh was probably the wealthiest area in the country, like Silicon Valley and Seattle now.
Annie Davis