By the end of writing 'Losing Ground,' I realized I was a libertarian. Charles Murray More Quotes by Charles Murray More Quotes From Charles Murray If we want to jack up the tax rates on the really rich, the amounts of money that would bring in are trivial compared to jacking up rates on the middle class. Charles Murray rich money want class My whole career has been one wrong answer after another as far as the left is concerned. Charles Murray answer wrong career left A part of me always felt like an outsider and still does. Charles Murray outsider like me always This is what old guys do. They get dark and pessimistic. Charles Murray guys old get dark We have a new lower class that's large and growing that has fallen away from a lot of the basic core behaviors and institutions that made America work, and we have a new upper class that's increasingly isolated from and ignorant of mainstream America. Charles Murray new work class america