Political Quotes

The fight to make the wealthiest Americans pay more in taxes is not one we should be fighting state by state.

It ignores our public schools," Newsom wrote, and said the California proposal would also overlook women's health clinics, housing and child care.

Wealth is movable, and it shops for the state with the lowest taxes.

Money buys influence, and influence rewrites the rules. Those rewritten rules funnel even more wealth to the few. Under this weight, democracy itself starts to buckle.