Tomatomitai

“By one estimate, simply collecting unpaid federal income taxes from the top 1 percent of households would bring in some $175 billion a year. We could just about fill the entire poverty gap in America if the richest among us simply paid all the taxes they owed.”
― Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

“So many memories and secrets, so many burdens. Every life has such weight. I don’t know how anybody carries even one.”
― Stuart Turton, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

“If this isn’t hell, the devil is surely taking notes.”
― Stuart Turton, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

“Just because desperate people seek out exploitative conditions doesn't make those conditions any less exploitative.”
― Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America