Income Quotes - Page 30

• I think the biggest thing we need is to unclog the credit markets, and we may need another stimulus - if we do, it's - it should go to the lower and middle-income people.

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, People, Needs

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• We're paying maybe 25 percent of the income tax, but the payroll tax is over a third of the receipts of the federal government. And they don't take that from me on capital gains. They don't take that from me on dividends.

  Warren Buffett

  Government, Payroll Tax, Gains

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". Interview With Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• I believe we stand strongly against having the tax code used to make the income disparity in America any worse than it already.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Believe, America, Used

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• My mother brought accordion home. She was going to learn to play it so she could teach it and increase her income. And I got fascinated with it, so she backed off and let me do it.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Mother, Home, Play

  Source: artsmania.ca

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• You could use artificial intelligence to build a system around postcodes and income, which could lead to racial profiling.

  will.i.am

  Use, Racial Profiling, Artificial Intelligence

  Source: thesource.com

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• I'm satisfied to have an ordinary success and an ordinary life and an ordinary income. Later, I don't know.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Ordinary, Satisfied, Knows

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The average income in France is $1,000 a month, and you can't live decently on that.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Average, Months, France

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• People that live in the Northeast are leaving the Northeast for a whole host of reasons. They're relocating in Southern states and Midwestern states - no-income-tax states, milder climate states - and it's affecting the balance of power in those states.

  Rush Limbaugh

  People, Southern, Leaving

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• People are tired of working longer hours for lower wages, of seeing decent paying jobs go to China and other low-wage countries, of billionaires not paying any federal income taxes and of not being able to afford a college education for their kids - all while the very rich become much richer.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Jobs, Tired

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I had been working on a second book with [David] Petraeus called Relentless. Obviously that book and the income that it would have generated went away.

  Paula Broadwell

  Book, Relentless

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• I'll end discriminatory laws like the Hyde Amendment that make it all but impossible for low-income women - disproportionately, women of color - to exercise their rights.

  Hillary Clinton

  Exercise, Color, Law

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• I've proposed reforms on taxes, regulations, and trade that will all have the effect of keeping jobs and wealth in America for our workers - and dramatically boosting incomes.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, America, Regulation

  "Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Discuss Student Debt, Immigration, and More". Interview with Judith Ohikuare, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 11, 2016.

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• Unemployment is low, incomes are up, poverty is down - and that's going to be a lasting change.

  Barack Obama

  Lasting Change, Low Income, Unemployment

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The fact that there isn't a performance right [for the use of sound recordings on ­terrestrial radio] means there's hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign income that doesn't come to the artists in America.

  Neil Portnow

  Mean, Artist, America

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• Because U.K. artists aren't compensated when their music is played on U.S. radio ­stations, U.S. artists aren't ­compensated when their records are played on U.K. stations based on the fact that there's no reciprocity. If that income came in, our ­artists would be paying income taxes on it. So if we can get a lot of policy on the radar, that may have some positive influence.

  Neil Portnow

  Artist, Would Be, Records

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• Let's say you're all worried about student-loan debt and you need to have steady income. That doesn't have to be your everything.

  Alexis Ohanian

  Needs, Debt, Students

  Source: thetartan.org

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• At the turn of the twenty-first century, the richest 5 percent of people receive one-third of total global income, as much as the poorest 80 percent.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  People, Twenties, Firsts

  Source: www.theoryculturesociety.org

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• I think the wealthiest people in America are doing phenomenally well, 52 percent of all new income generated today goes to the top 1 percent.

  Bernie Sanders

  Thinking, America, People

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• As entertainers, you're afraid [about] loss of income - but if other people start going to jail for free speech, then we've lost this great thing that America is, and I'd like to keep that.

  Killer Mike

  Loss, America, Jail

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• Real median household incomes in the U.S. were basically the same in 1989 as in 2014. But we are also seeing similar challenges in the U.K. in the stagnation of real wages.

  Mariana Mazzucato

  Real, Challenges, Wages

  Source: www.salon.com

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• If you're a person that has low income, you probably should have more assistance than a person with high income.

  Paul Ryan

  Should Have, Low Income, Lows

  "CBS’s 60 Minutes", www.newsbusters.org. December 4, 2016.

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• We started out covering income inequality in the magazine [Mother Jones], but that ongoing body of work positioned - and sourced - us well to put both Occupy and the 47 percent in context.

  Clara Jeffery

  Mother, Body, Covering

  Source: www.politico.com

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• If you want to get at African American poverty, the income gap, wealth gap, achievement gap, that the most important thing is to make sure that the society as a whole does right by people who are poor, are working class, are aspiring to a better life for their kids.

  Barack Obama

  Kids, Class, People

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• It is my view that if society was doing the right thing with respect to you, [and there were] programs targeted at helping people rise into the middle class and have a good income and be able to save and send their kids to school, and you've got a vigorous enforcement of anti-discrimination laws, then I have confidence in the black community's capabilities to then move forward.

  Barack Obama

  Moving, School, Kids

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• Does that mean that all vestiges of past discrimination would be eliminated, that the income gap or the wealth gap or the education gap [between Afro-Americans and white] would be erased in five years or 10 years? Probably not, and so this is obviously a discussion we've had before when you talk about something like reparations.

  Barack Obama

  Mean, Past, Years

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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