Income Quotes - Page 15

• Live according to your income.

  Aulus Persius Flaccus

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• Organisation of social insurance should be treated as one part only of a comprehensive policy of social progress. Social insurance fully developed may provide income security; it is an attack upon Want. But Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction and in some ways the easiest to attack. The others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor and Idleness.

  William Beveridge

  Ignorance, Progress, Giants

  "Social Insurance and Allied Services". The "Beveridge Report" by William Beveridge (Part 1, 8), November 1942.

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• When two working people decide to marry, their federal income tax is usually increased. As soon as one spouse earns at least 20 percent of a married couple's total income, the couple pays a 'marriage tax.' ... The United States is the only major industrialized nation in the free world in which the tax cost of the second [married] earner's entry into the work force is higher than that of the first. On one hand, our government's social policy is to help working women earn equal salaries to those of men, but on the other we have a tax structure that penalizes them when they do so.

  Millicent Fenwick

  Couple, Men, Hands

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• Our children, Edward, Agnes, and little Mary, promise well; their education, for the time being, is chiefly committed to me; and they shall want no good thing that a mother's care can give.
  Our modest income is amply sufficient for our requirements; and by practising the economy we learnt in harder times, and never attempting to imitate our richer neighbours, we manage not only to enjoy comfort and contentment ourselves, but to have every year something to lay by for our children, and something to give to those who need it.
  And now I think I have said sufficient.

  Anne Bronte

  Mother, Children, Book

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.743, Penguin

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• Unlike proportionality, progression provides no principle which tells us what the relative burden of different persons ought to be the argument based on the presumed justice of progression provides no limitation, as has often been admitted by its supporters, before all incomes above a certain figure are confiscated, and those below left untaxed.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Justice, Principles, Different

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Chap. 20 : Taxation and Redistribution, 1960.

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• Once politics become a tug-of-war for shares in the income pie, decent government is impossible.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  War, Government, Pie

  "Law, Legislation and Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 18 : The Containment of Power and the Dethronement of Politics, 1973.

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• being in the middle class is a feeling as well as an income level.

  Margaret Halsey

  Class, Feelings, Levels

  Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”

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• Frugality and economy are virtues without which no household can prosper. Whatever the income, waste of all kinds should be most sternly repressed ... Economy and frugality must never, however, be allowed to degenerate into meanness.

  Isabella Beeton

  Waste, Degenerates, Kind

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• it is better to take experience, to suffer, to love, and to remember than to walk unscathed between the fires. I've had most immunities myself - the result of an independent income combined with a personality completely devoid of sexual attractions - the two fires of poverty and passion have therefore never burned me, and I am a lesser person for my safety.

  Winifred Holtby

  Passion, Independent, Fire

  Winifred Holtby, Alice Holtby (1941). “Letters to a friend”

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• Communities must plan for a variety of uses and income levels. Why do we care about housing as high-tech employers? If teachers, firefighters, peace officers, retail or restau- rant workers can't live here, then we're going to fail.

  Carl Guardino

  Teacher, Nature, Smart

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• 70% of children born into poverty will never make it to the middle class. The uncomfortable truth is that there are now a number of other countries with as much or more opportunity than ours. In fact, more people in Canada go on to surpass the income of their parents than in the United States.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Children, Opportunity

  "Rubio Delivers Address on 50th Anniversary of the 'War on Poverty'". www.rubio.senate.gov. January 08, 2014.

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• Unequal distribution of income is an excessively uneconomic method of getting the necessary saving done.

  Joan Robinson

  Done, Saving, Economics

  Joan Robinson (1967). “Essay on Marxian Economics”, p.65, Springer

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• The primary driver of final consumer demand is, of course, the level of disposable income.

  Peter Dicken

  Finals, Levels, Demand

  Peter Dicken (2003). “Global Shift: Reshaping the Global Economic Map in the 21st Century”, p.475, SAGE

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• Recollect that to a woman who gets her living by her pen, 'time is money,' as it is to an artist. Therefore, encroaching on her time is lessening her income. And yet how often is this done (either heedlessly or selfishly) by persons professing to be her friends, and who are habitually in the practice of interrupting her in her writing hours.

  Eliza Leslie

  Writing, Artist, Often Is

  Eliza Leslie (2011). “Selections from Eliza Leslie”, p.274, U of Nebraska Press

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• The amount of time that a young girl spends wearing pink will be inversely proportional to her future income.

  Sandra Lerner

  Girl, Women, Wearing Pink

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• SNAP is a critical anti-hunger program that feeds millions of low income Americans, including children, veterans, and seniors who would not otherwise have the resources to buy groceries.

  Dan Maffei

  Senior, Children, Low Income

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• There is something fundamentally wrong about the way we [americans] are moving as a country, when billionaires are able to buy elections as a result of Citizens United. There`s something fundamentally wrong when 99 percent of all new income goes to the top 1 percent.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Moving, Able

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• So many people commute in this country by car long enough distances to really cut into their income, their real income, that they would change their vote based on gas prices.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Real, Distance

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• We spend a remarkably small, shamefully small, percentage of our income on food. We manage to spend money on lots of other things. All up and down the social ladder you find people with plenty of money for cell phones, home entertainment systems, all other forms of entertainment.

  Michael Pollan

  Home, Phones, Cells

  "Michael Pollan: The Omnivore’s Dilemma". Interview with Anne E. McBride, leitesculinaria.com. March 20, 2007.

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• Most conservatives just want to turn back the clock to a time before the income tax - 100 years or so. I would like to turn the clock back thousands of years to a time when people lived in small communities and took care of each other.

  Pete Seeger

  Years, People, Community

  Source: portside.org

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• Economic equity is an enormous empowerment of women. Having jobs that provide income means that women can be a more effective force, a more equal force, in the political process. Women with income take themselves more seriously and they are taken more seriously.

  Betty Friedan

  Jobs, Taken, Mean

  Source: www.minneapolisfed.org

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• There's no question that the black middle class has benefited greatly by the civil rights movement. But there is a large black underclass that does not have access to jobs. If there's no clear road to income and status except crime, we should expect social problems. You can't solve this problem without addressing the economic issues, and the same is true with gender.

  Betty Friedan

  Jobs, Class, Issues

  Source: www.minneapolisfed.org

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• Income earned by the sweat of your brow should be taxed at the lowest rates, not the highest. Capital gains should be taxed at a higher rate.

  John C. Bogle

  Sweat, Gains, Should

  Source: business.time.com

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• Take it from me: no matter how few or how many children you have, or how little or how much money you make, your expenses are going to exceed your income by approximately a hundred dollars a month.

  Teresa Bloomingdale

  Family, Children, Dollars

  Teresa Bloomingdale (1982). “Up a Family Tree”, G K Hall & Company

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• We have to have the money to do the work we want to do, as well as to keep a roof over our heads and food on the table. Fat commissions are good, but not always easy to come by, and each new painting takes its time. So we need to find every way possible to earn extra income from our work.

  Elizabeth Aston

  Needs, Tables, Want

  Elizabeth Aston (2006). “The True Darcy Spirit: A Novel”, p.292, Simon and Schuster

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