Robert Reich Companies Quotations

One tax dodge often used by multi-national companies is to squirrel their earnings abroad in foreign subsidiaries located in countries where taxes are lower.

Bankruptcy laws allow companies to smoothly reorganize, but not college graduates burdened by student loans.

Teachers, social workers, public lawyers who bring companies to justice, government accountants who try to make sure money is spent as it should be - all need at least four years of college.

In the 1980s, corporate raiders began mounting unfriendly takeovers of companies that could deliver higher returns to their shareholders - if they abandoned their other stakeholders.

It makes absolutely no economic sense for states to pay off companies in a zero-sum contest where no new jobs are created at the end of the day.