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1. "and they're right: put simply, the very rich don't pay their fair share"(141).

2. "Research in recent years has linked the tax rates, sluggish growth and rising inequality"(146)

3. "Without such investments, our economy will be weaker, and our economicl growth slower"(148).

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Fynn, Jeanine, Valentina

- “Our tax system relies heavily on voluntary compliance” (Stiglitz 148).

- “America now has the highest income inequality and the least equality of opportunity”(Stiglitz 143).

- “Society can’t function well without a minimal sense of national solidarity and cohesion, and that sense of shared purpose also rests on a fair tax system” (Stiglitz 148).

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"America now has the highest income inequality and the least equality of opportunity" (143)

"One of the reasons for our poor economic performance is the large distortion in our economy caused by the tax system" (146)

"Yet another source of unfairness is the tax treatment... financers are able to pay taxes at lower capital gains (145)

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-The U.S tax system is fundamentally unfair and designed to benefit the one percent or the wealthiest. (Quote: What should shock and outrages us is that as the top 1 percent has grown extremely rich, the effective tax rates they pay have markedly decreased 141)

-The rich don’t pay their fair share because they have investments, stocks, and property, which is taxed at a much lower rate than an ordinary person. (Quote: Which call on the federal government to negotiate favorable trade" 144)

-This inequality stifles economic opportunity and undermines the idea of a level playing field. (Quote: The United States stands out among the counties . . . for its low top marginal income tax rate. 143)

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1. The richest 400 individual taxpayers, with an average income of more than $200 million, pay less than 20 percent of their income taxes (141).

2. We could have a tax system that encourages good things like hard work and thrift and discourages bad things, like rent-seeking, gambling, financial speculation and pollution (147).

3. Eliminating these provisions alone would go a long way toward meeting deficit-reduction targets called for by fistcal conservatives who worry about the size of the public debt.(145)

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"Over the years, some of the wealthy have been enormously successful in getting special treatment, shifting an even greater share of the burden of financing the country's expenditures—defense, education, social programs—onto others" (Stiglitz 144).

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1. How did his time in the Marine Corps shape Vance into his college state?

2. How does he differ from those that he grew up with now?

3. How does he reference the difference between people in society?

Vance

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How does Alexander speak to the idea of Black and Latino people being targeted in terms of drugs, how does she talk expand on this?

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Does Alexander think the criminal justice system is fair amongst everyone and how can we come up or prove that conclusion?

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Why does Alexander bring up the conspiracy and truths of the CIA bringing drugs into black neighborhoods, and what would be their purpous if these claims were true?

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Alexander mentions how some African American people are unable to move up in America, how does she explain this?

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How does the cycle of poverty affect the life-to-prison pipeline, especially for poor Black neighborhoods?

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"Today, those same dreamers find it quite unsettling to watch as the tools that were designed to bring people together are used to magnify divisions and undermine social solidarity" (Boyd 74).

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"In so many parts of public, civic, and professional life, we are self-segregating, and the opportunities for doing so are increasing every day"(Boyd 81).

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"What makes people willing to hear difference is knowing and trusting people whose worldview differs from their own" (Boyd 81).

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"Exposure to content cannot make up for self-segregation"(Boyd 81).

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"Hell, this history of the United States is fraught with countless examples of people enslaving and oppressing other people on the basis of difference." (73)

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"Ironically, in a world in which we have countless tools to connect, we are also watching fragmentation, polarization,and de-diversification happen en masse" (74).

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"What makes people willing to hear difference is knowing and trusting people whose worldview differs from their own" (Boyd 81).

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"On Twitter and Facebook this means we prioritize by sharing stuff that will garner approval of our peers over stuff that's actually, you know, true" (Blanda 69).

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“when given the opportunity, people typically revert to situations where they can be in a homogenous environment”(Boyd 79).

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"Many pundits remarked that, during the 2016 election season, very few Americans were regularly exposed to people whose political ideology conflicted with their own" (Boyd 81).

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"The structures of American work life mean that fewer people work alongside others from different socioeconomic backgrounds" (Boyd 81).

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“The solution, as deBoer says: You have to be willing to sacrifice your carefully curated social performance and be willing to work with people who are not like you” (Blanda 70).

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"It's a preference to see the Other Side as a cardboard cutout, and not the complicated individual human beings that they actually are" (Blanda 69).

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"We cannot consider ourselves 'empathetic' only to turn around and belittle those who don't agree with us" (Blanda 69)

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"We won't truly progress as individuals until we make an honest effort to understand those that are not like us" (Blanda 71).

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"It signals that we'd rather be smug a**holes than consider alternative views"( Blanda 69)