Socialism For The Rich Quotes

#1. Gore Vidal, the American writer, once described the American economic system as 'free enterprise for the poor and socialism for the rich'. Macroeconomic policy on the global scale is a bit like that. It is Keynesianism for the rich countries and monetarism for the poor.

Ha-Joon Chang

#2. If you bail out every investment bank that gets in trouble, that's not capitalism, that's socialism for the rich

Jim Rogers

#3. [C]apitalism without financial failure is not capitalism at all, but a kind of socialism for the rich.

James Grant

#4. The free market is 'socialism' for the rich: the public pays the costs and the rich get the benefit - markets for the poor and plenty of state protection for the rich.

Noam Chomsky

#5. Our upside down welfare state is socialism for the rich, free enterprise for the poor.

William O. Douglas

#6. We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#7. Yes, in socialism the rich will be poorer - but the poor will also be poorer. People will lose interest in really working hard and creating jobs.

Thomas Peterffy

#8. Socialism for rich bankers and capitalism for everyone else.

Robert Reich

#9. Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious.

Deng Xiaoping

#10. The poor man is called a socialist if he believes that the wealth of the rich should be divided among the poor, but the rich man is called a financier if he devises a plan by which the pittance of the poor can be converted to his use.

William Jennings Bryan

#11. You rich people are all the same. You couldn't care less about the other half of the world. They can all starve to death for all you care!

Sally Wentworth

#12. Good Old Socialism ... Raping The Pocketbooks Of The Rich To Give To The Poor.

Beck

#13. Instead of poor America on socialism becoming more like rich America on capitalism, rich America on capitalism is becoming like poor America on socialism.

Star Parker

#14. Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.

Adam Smith

#15. The great thing about being rich is, you can embrace practices that kill the poor - that's what socialism does.

Greg Gutfeld

#16. No mercy for these enemies of the people, the enemies of socialism, the enemies of the working people! War to the death against the rich and their hangers-on, the bourgeois intellectuals; war on the rogues, the idlers and the rowdies!

Vladimir Lenin

#17. Efficiency was just a measurement of how fast money moved from the poor to the rich. We prefer the opposite of efficiency, which is to say, justice.

Kim Stanley Robinson