"You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer."
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Sir Winston Churchill
(1874-1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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Precisely, my dear friend Churchill.
 -- Anonymous		 
Trickle down economics at it's finest
 -- Anonymous		 
 -- Anonymous 
Exactly... too bad more people don't understand this truth.
 -- Anonymous		 
It is use and abuse of our fiat paper money system through manipulation that makes the poor poorer and the rich richer. This quote would be much more applicable in a rare metals based monetary system. As it applies to our debt money system, it is this system that allows the rich banking families to redistribute the wealth of the nation from the laborers' pocket into the their pocket. Who is it we owe everything to including the lives and future labor of the next generation?
 -- Anon		 
This gets a thumbs down from the immoral Communists, especially those in government.
 -- Mike, Norwalk		 
Since rich people are the ones who own businesses and create jobs, it's only natural that liberals want to raise their taxes. "Soak the Rich" has been the rallying cry of democrats and liberal republicans for years. Unfortunately, people who buy into that nonsense also vote.
 -- jim k, austin		 
Methinks Lincoln, the great destroyer of your freemanship and liberty, was Churchill's source for this quote, albeit abbreviated. Try Thomas DeLorenzo's books about Lincoln. Eye opening to say the least.
 -- jackliberty, Greensboro		 
Amen brother!
 -- M. Brown, Marco		 
The rich only get rich by providing goods and services to the poor at a reasonable cost effective price. The capitalist micro fallacy is that one can get rich by selling ones product at a high price and paying ones labor a low wage. When all "rich" do this then all "poor" wage earners are unable to purchase the products of the other. Of a truth the only place "rich" get their "riches" is from the "poor". Henry Ford new the game and he got really rich by producing cars at a cheaper and cheaper price, paid a good wage to his people for the times, and every one was happy. Churchill's quote flies in the face of the English Corn Laws which were enacted to prevent all wealth in England landing in the hands of some small percentage of the people.
 -- Waffler, Smith, Arkansas		 
Me thinks Waffler protesteth too much. The statement is self-evident.
 -- E Archer, NYC		 
And you don't make the poor richer by forcing them and their posterity to stay in society's basement all their lives, either. Trickle down economics historically haven't worked well, or if so only temporarily, while some of the best reforms made to this country have been, well, baby socialism. I'm by no means a socialist, but that doesn't mean I think all socialistic things are evil.
 -- Anonymous		 
Churchill was wrong, you do make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.
 -- Fredrick W. Sillik		 
The poor makes the rich richer by running after the satisfaction of his/her desires, which are driven all sort of seductive manipulation (i.e religion, social, marketing, etc). Maybe the poor can set resistance with his/her little money by not buying the new ipod, iphone, inonsense, etc. Nixon Jean-Baptiste
 -- Anonymous, Brooklyn, NY		 
The poor makes the rich richer by running after the satisfaction of his/her desires, which are driven by all sort of seductive manipulation (i.e religion, social, marketing, etc). Maybe the poor can set resistance with his/her little money by not buying the new ipod, iphone, inonsense, etc. Nixon Jean-Baptiste
 -- Anonymous, Brooklyn, NY		 
Only the poor hate this quote.
 -- Chris, New Orleans		 
 -- M. Healy, Newport Beach 
 
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