Income Quotes - Page 23

• The theory of government I was taught says that government provides benefits, primarily security, to the entire population. In return we pay taxes. But lately the government has been a distributor of special privileges, taking money from some and giving it to others. America is now about evenly split between those who pay income taxes and those who consume them.

  John Stossel

  Government, America, Giving

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• The income tax was devised to give lawyers and certified public accountants business. Few persons can make head, tail, or middle out of it. Einstein admitted he couldn't.

  W. C. Fields

  Giving, Tails, Lawyer

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• According to the World Health Organization, an average of Rs. 6500 per person was lost in India due to lack of cleanliness and hygiene. Swachh Bharat would make a significant impact on public health and in safeguarding income of the poor, ultimately contributing to the national economy.

  Narendra Modi

  Average, Hygiene, Organization

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• There seems to be an inclination among rock musicians to be very carefree with money, but I negotiate the best flight and hotel deals on our tours to maximise the band's income - I don't want too see too much taken off the top line.

  Ian Anderson

  Taken, Rocks, Musician

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• [W]hich category of crimes does the State pursue and punish most intensely? [T]hose against private citizens or those against itself? The gravest crimes in the State's lexicon are almost invariably not invasions of private person or property, but dangers to its own contentment, for example, treason, desertion of a soldier to the enemy, failure to register for the draft, subversion and subversive conspiracy, assassination of rulers and such economic crimes against the State as counterfeiting its money or evasion of its income tax.

  Murray Rothbard

  Soldier, Enemy, Contentment

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• The time has come to match outgo to income, instead of always doing it the other way around.

  Ronald Reagan

  Way

  Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.14, Humanix Books

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• If people want capital gains taxed more like the highest rate on income, that's a good discussion. Maybe that's the way to help close the deficit.

  Bill Gates

  People, Want, Way

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• Middle-income countries are the biggest users of GMOs. Places like Brazil.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Gmos, Brazil

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• Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down.

  Bill Gates

  Broken, Care, Poor

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• In low-income countries, getting to a health post is hard. It's very expensive.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Low Income, Lows

  "Wonkblog Bill Gates: ‘Death is something we really understand extremely well’". Interview with Ezra Klein, www.washingtonpost.com. May 17, 2013.

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• May you have the income of a Republican and the sex life of a Democrat!

  Johnny Carson

  Sex, Democracy, May

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• The secret of happiness is to live within your income and pay your bills on time.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Secret, Pay, Bills

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• More and more lower-middle-income families either live their lives in debt or leave the city altogether. The boom is strictly at the penthouse level.

  George Steiner

  Cities, Debt, Levels

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• You cannot make your opportunities concur with the opportunities of people whose incomes are ten times greater than yours.

  Steve Martin

  Opportunity, People, Concur

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• I did 15 shows a week when I lived in New York. I did five shows on a Friday and seven shows on a Saturday. It was everything I did and it was my sole source of income.

  Ray Romano

  Friday, New York, Week

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• You might be a redneck if your primary source of income is the pawn shop.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Might, Pawns

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• We need to remember that we can't compete endlessly with other nations that set their income taxes substantially lower than ours. They will attract jobs, and investment. They may generate more tax - and they may even persuade their tennis champs to run that extra half yard

  Boris Johnson

  Running, Jobs, Tennis

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• If instead of looking at income, you look at levels of consumption, if anything that's become more equal. The fraction of families that have a dishwasher, that have a sewing machine, that have a television set. In respect to consumption, it's very hard to avoid the view that people have been getting more equal rather than more unequal.

  Milton Friedman

  Views, People, Looks

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think in some ways it would make more sense to have as a poverty level a relative concept and say, the level of poverty is that level of income or that level of consumption below which 10 percent of the people now are.

  Milton Friedman

  Thinking, People, Levels

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think it's a scandal what has been happening in the school system so far as lower income classes. The dropout rates, the illiteracy rate, you know literacy in the United States was a lot higher in 1890 than it is now.

  Milton Friedman

  School, Thinking, Class

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Once you taste the second income in the household and it changes your lifestyle, you get used to it.

  Reema Bint Bandar Al Saud

  Taste, Changing Your Life, Lifestyle

  "For Women In Saudi Arabia, Gender Segregation More Like A 'Glass Wall'". "Here and Now" with Meghna Chakrabarti with Linda Wertheimer, wbaa.org. December 13, 2015.

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• I was shocked to see that some of the very wealthiest people in the country have organised their tax affairs, and to be fair it's within the tax laws, so that they were regularly paying virtually no income tax. And I don't think that's right.

  George Osborne

  Country, Thinking, Law

  "George Osborne: I'm going after the wealthy tax dodgers" by Robert Winnett, and James Kirkup, www.telegraph.co.uk. April 9, 2012.

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• Moving to Australia was not a career move, but a quality of life issue. It has no guns, no God, and no gangster rap. As an Ethiopian cab driver said to me the other day when I was returning from a gig in Sydney, Australia is a peaceful, democratic place. I like the relatively stress free lifestyle. It's worth the drop in income.

  Franklyn Ajaye

  Stress, Rap, Moving

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• I believe in diversification of income, because you never know what will happen. I'm a slightly paranoid person who thinks things could be ruined at any time.

  Eugene Mirman

  Believe, Thinking, Paranoid

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• A holistic solution to income inequality is going to take a lot of work, but every time you prove that one of the strands is achievable and that it has a positive impact on people's lives you take another step towards proving the bigger theory of the case.

  Bill de Blasio

  Impact, People, Steps

  "Bill de Blasio on the Crisis of Inequality and the Blind Spots of the Democratic Party". Interview with Eric Alterman, www.thenation.com. May 14, 2015.

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