Income Quotes - Page 25

• Income is the natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Gauges, Natural, Rational

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.137, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Socialism violates at least three of the Ten Commandments: It turns government into God, it legalizes thievery and it elevates covetousness. Discussions of income inequality, after all, aren't about prosperity but about petty spite. Why should you care how much money I make, so long as you are happy?

  Ben Shapiro

  Government, Long, Care

  "SHAPIRO: Why Socialism Is on the Rise". www.truthrevolt.org. January 8, 2014.

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• [Several candidates talked of problems with the federal Medicare system, particularly concerns about whether it would cover prescription drug costs in the future.] We're asking senior citizens to make a choice between their health and their income, ... Medicare is probably the most difficult challenge we face in the next century, because it has a lot to do with other things besides money.

  John McCain

  Senior, Choices, Challenges

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• As white authors, bloggers, and readers, we must stop promoting diversity as a business opportunity or a chance to buy ally points with our disposable income.

  Jennifer Armintrout

  Opportunity, White, Diversity

  "Fiction’s Big, White Problem" by Jennifer Armintrout, jennytrout.com. March 18, 2014.

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• It would, I think, be hard for anyone to make the case that the United States is a just society or anything close to a just society. In America today, there is massive injustice in terms of income and wealth inequality. Injustice is rampant.

  Bernie Sanders

  Thinking, America, United States

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• Trickle down economics is a fraud. Giving tax breaks to the rich and large corporations does not create jobs. It simply makes the rich richer, enlarges the deficit and increases income and wealth inequality. We need economic policies which benefit working families, not the billionaire class.

  Bernie Sanders

  Jobs, Class, Giving

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• If the "rich" were swarming into poor neighborhoods and beating the poor until they coughed up the dimes they swallowed for safekeeping, yes, this would be a transfer of income from the poor to the rich. But allowing taxpayers to keep more of their money does not qualify as taking it from the poor - unless you believe that the poor have a moral claim to the money other people earn.

  James Lileks

  Believe, Poor Neighborhoods, People

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• Sales = income. The reason so many people have low incomes is that they are poor at selling.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  People, Low Income, Reason

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• First, in order to build a business, you have to be able to sell because Sales = Income. When income is lacking, it's usually because the owner doesn't like to, doesn't know how to, or is simply reluctant to sell. Without sales, however, you have no income.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Order, Firsts, Able

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• If we stuck to the Constitution as written, we would have: no federal meddling in our schools; no Federal Reserve; no U.S. membership in the UN; no gun control; and no foreign aid. We would have no welfare for big corporations, or the "poor"; no American troops in 100 foreign countries; no NAFTA, GAT, or "fast-track"; no arrogant federal judges usurping states rights; no attacks on private property; no income tax. We could get rid of most of the agencies, and most of the budget. The government would be small, frugal, and limited.

  Ron Paul

  Country, School, Gun

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• The story of Detroit's bankruptcy was simple enough: Allow capitalism to grow the city, campaign against income inequality, tax the job creators until they flee, increase government spending in order to boost employment, promise generous pension plans to keep people voting for failure. Rinse, wash and repeat.

  Ben Shapiro

  Jobs, Simple, Cities

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• Just look at that Forbes 400. Takes a billion three to get on the Forbes 400 this year. And the aggregate wealth is just staggering. And those people are paying less percentage of their total income to the federal government than their receptionists are. [...] I'll bet a million dollars against any member of the Forbes 400 who challenges - me that the average for the Forbes 400 will be less than the average of their receptionists.

  Warren Buffett

  Government, Average, Years

  Interview with Tom Brokaw, www.cnbc.com. October 31, 2007.

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• ...100% of what is collected is absorbed solely by interest on the Federal Debt...all individual income tax revenues are gone before one nickel is spent on the services taxpayers expect from government.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Gone, Debt

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• The [Donald] Trump plan would increase the national debt a little over a $1 trillion a year, the Trump plan would reduce taxes at all income levels with, of course, the biggest tax cuts going to the richest taxpayers as they always do.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Cutting, Years, Debt

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Do away with the corporate loopholes that allow major profitable corporations to stash their money in the Cayman Islands and not pay a nickel in some cases in federal income taxes.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Islands, Pay, Corporations

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The American president has to both keep our families safe and make the economy grow in a way that helps everyone, not just those at the top. That`s the job. I have a strategy to combat and defeat ISIS without getting us involved in another ground war. And I have plans to raise incomes and deal with a lot of the problems that keep families up at night.

  Hillary Clinton

  Jobs, War, Night

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• If drugs were legalized in the US, the Mexican economy would collapse since the earnings from drugs bring in more hard currency than its largest licit source, oil sales. Mexico is a corrupt state that has now become dependent on the earnings on an illegal product. But inevitably, the product will become legal and then Mexico will retain its corruption but must face the needs of its citizens now employed by the drug industry who have become steeped in violence and conditioned to higher incomes.

  Charles Bowden

  Oil, Mexican, Drug

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There are some people who say that they’re concerned only with poverty but not inequality. But I don’t think that is a sustainable thought. A lot of poverty is, in fact, inequality because of the connection between income and capability—having adequate resources to take part in the life of the community.

  Amartya Sen

  Thinking, People, Community

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• The truth is, the vast majority of medical care for lower income people in America is shitty. If you go to a free clinic to receive any form of care, the majority of those will be overcrowded with nurses who are tired because they have to work with so many people. We are not a country that invests public money into taking care of poor people, so we usually rely on clinics with very overburdened and underpaid staff.

  Molly Crabapple

  Country, Tired, America

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Climate change will impact most heavily on the disadvantaged. If we don't address these impacts, as well as growing income inequalities, we are marching blindly toward major breakdowns in security, governance, and public welfare.

  Wesley K. Wark

  Impact, Climate, Growing

  "General Wesley K. Clark, Co-Chair of Growth Energy". Interview with Chip Comins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• My roots were pretty far removed from high income. It's interesting to be back there at the level of income I have now, at this stage in my life.

  Morgan Freeman

  Roots, Interesting, Levels

  "New Again: Morgan Freeman". Interview with Graham Fuller, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 10, 2016.

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• It was shocking to realize how many low-income Americans don't have savings accounts.

  Dan Ariely

  Low Income, Saving, Realizing

  "Mental depletion complicates financial decisions for the poor". Interview with Kristen Doerer, www.pbs.org. January 19, 2016.

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• Most of them benefit businesses, things like research and development tax credits. But people will also benefit, too, from things like - the earned income tax credit and the child tax credit have been made permanent. They predominantly help lower-income families.

  Susan Davis

  Children, Research And Development, People

  "Here's What You Should Know About The $1.8 Trillion Spending Bill". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. December 21, 2015.

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• Population diminishing, even in Japan and Italy, the population is diminishing. When society can reach a sustainable place or gain comfortable income, then people tend to have fewer children. Poverty makes a chain reaction of having many children. So when society reaches some kind of level, then it will turn toward getting a smaller population.

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Children, Japan, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I am laying out a specific agenda that will make more progress, get more jobs with rising incomes, get us to universal health care coverage, get us to universal pre-k, paid family leave and the other elements of what I think will build a strong economy, that will ensure Americans keep making progress. That's what I'm offering and that's what I will do as president.

  Hillary Clinton

  Strong, Jobs, Thinking

  Hillary Clinton's speech at the Clinton-Sanders Democratic presidential debate in Durham, New Hampshire, hosted by MSNBC, www.nytimes.com. February 4, 2016.

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