I want to reform the tax code so that it’s simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 – the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot.
If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.
Just in general, any government throughout history hasn’t really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn’t control them as easily.
We don’t want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker’s dam is the history we make today.
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.