- Landscape
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- Nov 07, 2020
Class Warfare Quotes
Political voices on class warfare rhetoric.
These class warfare quotes come from politicians arguing over whether the phrase describes real policy or is itself a rhetorical weapon, including one view dismissing the one percent versus 99 percent framing as a false statistic. Several speakers use the term to criticize tax and spending proposals.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
My deal is have a flat, simple tax. And - Americans want - Americans I hope - aspire to be - be wealthy. I hope they aspire to have a better quality of life. And we have this class warfare that's going on now. And I don't agree with that. I'm interested in people getting to work.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to get away from the class warfare and recognize that we are growing jobs by helping small business.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
First of all, this whole idea of this one percent versus the 99 percent, it's a false statistic. There's nobody that is wealthy saying, let's go get the people that aren't. First of all, there's no versus. He's creating a false class warfare in a country where there is no class structure.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way to connect with voters on the plan is to simply give the facts. Fifty per cent of taxpayers pay 97 per cent of the taxes. By most people's standards, that's already fair. The President is playing the class warfare card because he knows that a lot of people may never hear that particular fact. But it's a fact.
- Burden
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Democratic Party opposes tax cuts but it cannot say so publicly. Thus, it is forced to support the idea of lowering the tax burden but using class warfare rhetoric to dispute the allocation of the relief.
- Deficit Reduction
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- Nov 07, 2020