Income Quotes - Page 27

• I always had a fairly decent income, coming in just from the art.

  Robert Barry

  Art, Decent

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• It's a terrible cruelty of predatory capitalism: both parents now have to work. A family has to have two incomes in order to buy the things that are desirable in our culture. So the degradation of motherhood - the sense that motherhood isn't itself a calling - also arises from economic pressure.

  James Hillman

  Motherhood, Two, Order

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Let there be no mistake, Sen Sanders, his campaign and the vigorous debate that we've had about how to raise incomes, how to reduce inequality, increase upward mobility, has been very good for the Democratic Party and for America.

  Hillary Clinton

  Mistake, Party, America

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Income inequality and wage stagnation finally took their place among the principal moral issues of our time.

  David Rolf

  Issues, Moral, Inequality

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Annual earnings in the fast-food industry are well below the income needed for self-sufficiency, and fast-food industry jobs are also much less likely than other jobs to provide health benefits.

  David Rolf

  Jobs, Self, Earning

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The minimum wage isn't earned only by people working at fast food restaurants and in service industry work - the average income for positions like nursing assistants, preschool teachers and paramedics are all under $15.

  David Rolf

  Teacher, Nursing, Average

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Except for the usual house chores, doing income tax, etc., I am free to write whenever I want.

  Yuriy Tarnawsky

  Writing, House, Usual

  "No Tall Tales". Interview with David Moscovich, www.raintaxi.com. 2012.

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• What the hell is social justice? What sort of fool can imagine income equality as dictated by bureaucrats and government thugs? I dare anyone to attempt to explain those drug-inspired fantasies in meaningful terms.

  Ted Nugent

  Meaningful, Thug, Government

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• There are two definitions of deflation. Most people think of it simply as prices going down. But debt deflation is what happens when people have to spend more and more of their income to carry the debts that they've run up - to pay their mortgage debt, to pay the credit card debt, to pay student loans.

  Michael Hudson

  Running, Thinking, Two

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Deflation means a slowdown of income growth. Markets shrink, new capital investment and employment also taper off, so wages decline. That is what's happening as deliberate policy in Europe and the United States. Falling or stagnant prices are simply the result of having less income to spend.

  Michael Hudson

  Fall, Mean, Europe

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The price decline is a result of having to pay debts. That drains income from the circular flow between production and consumption - that is, between what people are paid when they go to work, and the things that they buy.

  Michael Hudson

  People, Debt, Pay

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Paying debt service to banks leaves less income to buy goods and services.

  Michael Hudson

  Paying Debts, Goods And Services, Debt

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• When they say inflation is bad, deflation is good, what they mean is, more money for us 1% is good; we're all for asset price inflation, we're all for housing prices going up, and we're all for our stock and bonds prices going up. We're just against you workers getting more income.

  Michael Hudson

  Mean, Assets, Deflation

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• When there's deflation, it means that although most markets are shrinking and people have less to spend, the 1% that hold the 99% in debt are getting all the growth in wealth and income. Deflation means that income is being transferred to the 1%, that is, to the creditors and property owners.

  Michael Hudson

  Mean, People, Growth

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Everybody would be better off if they could buy housing for only, let's say, a carrying charge of one-quarter of their income. That used to be the case 50 years ago. Buyers had to save up and make a higher down payment, giving them more equity - perhaps 25 or 30 percent. But today, banks are creating enough credit to bid up housing prices again.

  Michael Hudson

  Years, Creating, Giving

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The other dynamic keeping the stock market up - both for technology stocks and others - is that companies are using a lot of their income for stock buybacks and to pay out higher dividends, not make new investment,. So to the extent that companies use financial engineering rather than industrial engineering to increase the price of their stock you're going to have a bubble. But it's not considered a bubble, because the government is behind it, and it hasn't burst yet.

  Michael Hudson

  Technology, Government, Engineering

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• If you look at payments to labor as a proportion of national income or gross domestic product, you find profits going way up, investment and savings going up.

  Michael Hudson

  Looks, Saving, Way

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Labour has the responsibility to give a lead where the government will not. We need to bring people together, hold the government to account, oppose austerity and set out a path to exit that will protect jobs and incomes.

  Jeremy Corbyn

  Jobs, Responsibility, Government

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I think people think their incomes have been flat lining for a long period of time. They feel that the next generation's opportunities are not going to be improvement. So and I also think that social media then allows insurgent movements to gain scale at speed.

  Tony Blair

  Opportunity, Thinking, Media

  The MSNBC Interview, www.realclearpolitics.com. June 28, 2016.

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• Growing our economy means allowing individuals, and particularly those in the middle class, to be able to keep more of their money. It also means that people in the middle class and modest incomes to be able to pay for their retirement, to get a down payment for a home, to send a child to college.

  Mitt Romney

  Retirement, Children, Mean

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I just got a new manager. He's like, "So what do you want to do with the deejay thing?" I'm like, "The deejay thing for me is more my hobby." It's great when you can supplement your income, when you have a weekly or something, it's fun. It's really a hobby, because I don't want it to take away from what I do, which is emceeing.

  Talib Kweli

  Fun, Hobbies, Want

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• This is a very important issue that the corporate media chooses not to talk about a whole lot, that we have an economic system which is rigged, which means that at the same time as the middle class of this country is disappearing, almost all of the new income and wealth in America is going to the top 1 percent. You have the top one-tenth of 1 percent owning almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent - 58 percent of all new income is going to the top 1 percent.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Mean, Media

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• This is a critical time in American history. [Donald's Trump] strength is willingness to stand up to political conventions, take on Republican and Democrat leaders, and, in effect, do so in defense of the legitimate interest of people who make less than median income in America, is the key to victory.

  Jeff Sessions

  America, Keys, People

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• You've got the principled people who maybe are on salaried jobs, or CEOs, entrepreneurs, and all of those that are great people, but if you're not appealing - the permanent coalition is to join that with traditional Americans who feel like, that things aren't going well for them, and to develop policies that improve their lifestyle, not just upper-income lifestyles. And once that's believed by working people, that it's serious and a commitment and you care about people like me, for a change, Republicans could create a new majority.

  Jeff Sessions

  Jobs, Commitment, People

  Source: www.politico.com

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• [Mitt] Romney didn't get beyond the numbers. He couldn't get 50 percent. Romney didn't - Romney got killed by the under-$50,000-a-year income voter. He just got killed in that.

  Jeff Sessions

  Years, Numbers, Voters

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