A person working 45 hours per week averages 44% more income than someone working 40 hours per week. That's 44% more income for 13% more time.

Religion to be true must satisfy what may be termed humanitarian economics, that is, where the income and the expenditure balance each other.

It is a mere illusion that, above a certain income, the personal desires will be satisfied and leave a wider margin for the generous impulse.

I agree with people who say we want more income equality; we want more consumer protection; and we want sounder banks. I agree with all that.

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.

Growth is a substitute for equality of income. So long as there is growth there is hope, and that makes large income differentials tolerable.

I think that on the Democratic side, Bernie Sanders talks about income inequality and poverty alleviation, and those issues are so important.

The expenses of complying with Washington's torrent of mandates and regulatory overreach are costing American workers jobs and income growth.

Here's the question for my fellow Republicans: Do we want to be the first-ever GOP House majority to raise federal marginal income tax rates?

I still get invitations from all over Europe to speak at dinners, and it's an honour that promoters and charities can use me to create income.

I think it is better when people with their own businesses and means of income join politics as there is some degree of honesty and integrity.

In an unmolested market economy - one where all dealings are consensual - the 'allocation' of wealth and income is the result of transactions.

There is nothing wrong with wanting pay for work, or seeking to maximize one's income, as long as one does not use means that are destructive.

For Central Virginia small business owners, their business is more than a building, a sign out front, or an income - it's their lifelong dream.

All of us kids in the neighbourhood had to go shoeless for the same reason - all except the landlord's son, because his father had more income.

Anybody who is familiar with the historical data from the IRS knows that raising income tax rates will likely actually reduce federal revenues.

Make no mistake, the point of cutting the personal income tax and the capital gains cut is to send an unmistakable message to business leaders.

By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world. Almost all countries will be what we now call lower-middle income or richer.

Realize that you earn income by providing value - not time - so find a way to provide your best value to others, and charge a fair price for it.

We have to reduce the tax burden, whether it's income tax for corporations or private individuals, and we should put a freeze on property taxes.

I didn't grasp the basic principle of being a promoter, which was: Put on music but also generate an income. I was on the dole most of the time.

Income inequality is one thing, but a permanent division into the haves and have-nots is an entirely different thing - and much less acceptable.

Let me tell you, the heart of my tax proposal: I will not raise taxes on the American people. I will not raise taxes on middle-income Americans.

We have a high standard of living. ... In Norway, we've tripled our income since 1970. In the rest of western Europe, income has merely doubled.

The impact of low interest rates is broad and deep. Many Americans rely on interest income from their savings to help cover their cost of living.

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.

People can change the volume, the location and the composition of their income, and they can do so in response to changes in government policies.

Employers able to work together with workers and sharing gains and profits will lead to a much better world, getting away from income inequality.

All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's; a few gifted individuals manage to do both.

If income tax is the price you have to pay to keep the government on its feet, alimony is the price we have to pay for sweeping a woman off hers.

The key to financial freedom and great wealth is a person's ability or skill to convert earned income into passive income and/or portfolio income.

A child's geographic location, race or parent's income level should not predetermine their life's course and it's up to us to see that they don't.

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.

In the tradition of national income accounting, economic policymakers have typically focused on variables such as income, wealth, and consumption.

You could make a case that women addicted men to their sexuality and then withdrew their sexuality until we provided them with a source of income.

The only one benefiting from this, the American taxpayer, almost half of our taxes, our income taxes, are going to the military and to these wars.

The food delivery business has provided Singaporeans, especially the low-income and those who seek to supplement their income, with on-demand work.

I do work a lot. I mean, most of my income, I would say, comes from live performances. And then you've got publishing, you've got record royalties.

Poverty is not just about income: it's about aspiration. It's not just about giving people a couple of extra pounds a week, welcome though that is.

To obtain financial freedom, one must be either a business owner, an investor, or both, generating passive income, particularly on a monthly basis.

The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction, cash flow is reality.

Practically all government attempts to redistribute wealth and income tend to smother productive incentives and lead toward general impoverishment.

Twentieth-century welfare state capitalism was historically unique in that national income was split between wages and profits, labour and capital.

Higher energy prices act like a tax. They reduce the disposable income people have available for other things after they've paid their energy bills.

American workers deserve a raise. I fully support the push for $15 an hour and a union. We also must raise wages for low and middle income families.

When you go to bed tonight, ask yourself 'What percentage of my day did I spend creating residual income?' If the answer is ZERO, you're in trouble.

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.

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.

People don't think music to be a reliable source of income or career, which I will agree, in a way, because Bollywood is a very risky place to be in.

We need to ban outside income for elected officials. Transparency alone is not enough; it doesn't solve the problem of creating outside dependencies.

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