Mike, here is part of the answer to your question... hope it helps..
.https://www.irs.gov/uac/SOI-Tax-Stats-Historical-Table-3

The rich today don't need the people to become rich as we have a fiat economy and the rich get rich not from making widgets but from the interest on debt. There are a few exceptions where the rich have been honest and have integrity, and have worked hard for their fortune but that is rare.

Obviously, he didn't know the reality of the matter! Debt has nothing to do with government but everything to do with the federal reserve, central banks, and a corrupt corporate America....

Perhaps if we cut military spending in half and close all the 800 bases we have in foreign lands; and do away with government and municipality bureaucracy, and the mismanaged of federal agencies (disband the CIA), we could afford healthcare for everyone and feed the poor.

As said above, when the nation is corrupt so are the people... When CEO's keep getting increase's in salary and the minions below keep quite because their increases are related, until of course, you get to the workers who get minimum wage.
The scams in the US are so numerous that recovery will be nearly impossible. Hence REVOLUTION!

If the disparity continues, the nation will implode and revolution is inevitable....

And today. the military machine and it's corporate associations take more than 50 cent of the dollar. Government today it utterly and totally corrupt with only a handful of exceptions. America today is slipping away very fast on all the indicators for a civilized country. And as for democracy in the western nations the US is at the bottom. It's unfortunate that America has never learnt a darn thing from history and still falls into the time old traps of unfettered capitalism - commercialism gone crazy. Corruption at every level of government and corporate boeard rooms. It's a real mess, and something drastic needs to happen before we can no longer stop the nation from free fall.....

I believe this quote is for the people - so, what's the problem???

Both the Federal Reserve and the IRS were created as one agency to rob the poor. The rich lost a lot of wealth in the crash hence the terrible two.... They should both be dismantled, and as RBESRQ (I think I use to have that name) has suggested, bring in a new agency with a flat tax.

Not surprising considering the IRS and the Federal Reserve were born the same year...
The fiat economy is a total scam which is about to explode. The fed and Wall Street have run out of precautionary measures and now the writing is on the wall. I'm not even sure taking your money out of the banks is a solution as money may become obsolete! The US economy has existed on the power as a world economy; that is now being taken down by bloc currencies and a move from the central banking criminal system. So, what happens when the crash happens and they shut down the banks- well you better have a plan - if it's a good plan please share....

Let go of your ego but not your principle's....

Why is it that all the good men get assassinated while the bad one's die in their beds.... The rights of the individual are so important to protect that anyone waving it's banner will become targets of the NWO and corporate and government greed.

We are the keepers of sanity..... Margaret Mead was right on!

What's our position today: The military and arms manufactures, and the industries of finance and wealth management, healthcare and pharma, legal, municipalities, real estate ponzi scheme, insurance, the retail business, student loan racketeer, and last but not least, the sporting conglomerate. Not one of these actual produce a widget - The destruction of the middle class was achieved without a drop of blood being shed. The social playground today is made up of the rich and minimum wage earners, and that's how the rich like it! The middle class was a strong opposition to the rich and held them in check, but now they no longer exist, the capitalists/rich are in total control. Many of the rich today have made their money from all these ponzi schemes. This is why there will be a revolution in the US as this situation will only get worse, and when the people have nothing left to lose, they lose it! The capitalists are taking everything from the poor and please don't give me that bull+*$% about the rich providing jobs. This situation can be repaired if achieved rapidly by decentralizing the banking system, terminating the Federal Reserve, doing away with the Patriot Act, CIA and FBI, having a single payer health care system, campaign reform (politicians not being allowed to accept any private or corporate funding), cutting our military in half, closing all the US bases abroad, getting out of the middle east and all armed conflicts abroad, bringing back Glass Steagall, terminating NAFTA, TPP and other egregious trade agreements (there is nothing free about these agreements), rebuilding our infrastructure, creating a nation wide high speed transit system, funding small businesses, reforming our educational system, and much, much more. Unless we change as a nation, as a people, our thinking, we will continue down the road of self destruction. We must become holistic in all things and kind and compassionate human beings.

Is the US a lost cause:
I think the US may be a lost cause - it has lost much of its constitution, its moral and ethical principles, its integrity, its intellect, its industry, its human rights, its compassion, its empathy, and its love. We have replaced all that for the Patriot Act, our loss liberty, and a plutocracy because we are dumb, drones, and incapable of critical thinking. If we are to recover, we need to scrap the current political system (which is corrupt to its core) and totally rewrite a constitution that will be held in perpetuity for all its people. And socially, we must rewrite how we live together; we must rewrite our educational system (which presently provides fodder and drones for the corporate elite), and we must each become responsible for the actions of our representatives. Unless we make these drastic changes America will undoubtedly implode, unfortunately, it will take much of humanity down in the process. Politicians (who are just puppets), bankers (who are gangsters), corporate elite (who are the NWO), a few wealthy families (the Rothschild’s, etc.) need to go, they need to be identified and imprisoned for crimes against humanity.

Beautifully said....

I live in hope!

Unfortunately, many in high political office are without a conscience...... It's the one thing psychopaths have missing.....

This quote would be a lot more meaningful if he hadn't come from a wealthy family, educated privately and went onto Oxford. I love his stories but this quote he is in no position to remark...

We all contrive to survive and he knew it!

Disraeli said some stupid things and this is one of them....

Admin, your on a roll....

I agree, but his figures need to be corrected....

1913 was the death knell of the integrity of the US economy....

Yes, I agree, with one proviso, and that is: any family wishing to home school should pass a means test. The test should be based on a liberal and holistic education.... I'm not saying the public school education is good in the US but the philosophy is good. Instead of funding wars, our military machine, and the banks, we should concentrate on providing funds for a better public school system. Home schooling would isolate children causing problems with their behavioral skills.

A typical Thatcher remark.... who ruined the English economy by deregulation of the banks.