No matter how wealthy a few plutocrats get, we can never drive a great national economy. Only a thriving middle class can do that.

It is true that rich people can spend more money than middle class people, but there's this upper limit on what we can spend. I drive a very nice car, but it's only one car. I don't own a thousand, even though I earn a thousand times the median wage. I have a few jackets, not a few thousand.

Empowering women in the workforce is a key to growing the economy and having a thriving middle class.

I'm painfully middle class.

My premise is not to tax to destroy the wealth of the wealthy; it's to increase the wealth of the bottom and the middle class.

It is the middle class which takes the country forward.