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I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax.
Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down.
Working families spend about 90 percent of their income on consumption - buying stuff. The rich spend less than 45 percent.
You boast of spending a tenth part of your income in charity; may be you should spend the nine tenths so, and done with it.
Pay off your mortgage before retirement, and that's one less bill you'll have to worry about when you're on a fixed income.
The idea of abolishing Income Tax is to me highly attractive, both on other grounds and because it tends to public economy.
Man, I grew up like everybody else. Middle-low income family. My parents got divorced like most of the rest of the country.
Without productivity gains, any growth in GDP is exactly offset by population growth, and the average income stays the same.
If you're going to grow the economy, if people are going to have more income, you have to have stability in the marketplace.
Eventually I want to subsidize my income with other creative outlets that are going to not keep me tied to the road so much.
I'm a children's book writer, and my wife is a musician. We've raised a family on income from songs, performances and books.
I could juggle anything in my day. Balls, cigar boxes, knives...But there was one thing I could never juggle. My income tax.
I'm against an income tax because all the rich people hire lawyers and accountants to be sure that they don't pay income tax.
Money not spent on a luxury one considered even briefly is the equivalent of windfall income and should be spent accordingly.
Overcome your barriers, intend the best, and be patient. You will enjoy more balance, more growth, more income, and more fun!
Crassus was in the habit of maintaining that nobody should be called rich who was not able to maintain an army on his income.
In talking about equality and asking vehemently for its realization, nobody advocates a curtailment of his own present income.
Most European countries fund their low corporate taxes with some form of a value-added tax, on consumption rather than income.
Good customers are an asset which, when wellmanaged and served, will return a handsome lifetime income stream for the company.
I believe we stand strongly against having the tax code used to make the income disparity in America any worse than it already.
American capitalists, enthralled by the doctrines of finance, have put their income statements in service of the balance sheet.
So I do have to work, you know, and I find as many movies and TV shows that I can, because otherwise I wouldn't have an income.
I was the founder of the Cartoon Bank in the 90s. I was interested in finding ways for cartoonists to supplement their incomes.
President Bush listed his income as $822,000. You know what John Kerry calls someone who earns $822,000? Not even worth dating.
Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.
The claim that if people had a basic income they would become lazy is prejudiced and has been refuted many times in many places.
Kids who live in low income areas face extra challenges and show up at schools that were not designed to meet their extra needs.
Discriminatory wage practices undermine women's ability to provide for their families and survive on a decent retirement income.
Regardless of their parent's income or zip code, every child in Georgia deserves access to a high-quality, affordable education.
Class is not a fixed designation in this country. We are an upwardly mobile society with a lot of movement between income groups.
Youth should have access to paid internships or jobs year-round, so they can keep developing important skills and earning income.
Public social services, infrastructural policies, and so on are vital. But a basic income should be part of a package of reforms.
Growing up in a lower-income family, you don't have the resources to make ends meet and you have to find creative ways to get by.
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.
I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn't.
For every day the government is shut down, it should be that we don't have to pay income tax that day because they're not working.
I am not brave enough to not pay my income tax and risk going to jail. But I can say rather freely what I want to say with my art.
This is too difficult for a mathematician. It takes a philosopher. The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
Prescription drug prices are skyrocketing and one-third of all seniors depend on Social Security for at least 90% of their income.
For a nation, the choices that determine whether income doubles in one generation or two dwarf all other economic policy concerns.
Wishy-washy equivocations - and not just on abortion, but on immigration, on civil rights, on income inequality - weaken all of us.
Everyone has a telephone. Whether they can afford it or not. It's one of those things that people have, regardless of their income.
Most Americans think that the typical low - income family lives in public housing or gets housing assistance. The opposite is true.
We have undocumented immigrants in America who are paying more federal income tax than a billionaire. I find that just astonishing.
For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth.
American businesses and upper incomes pay a larger portion of the federal taxes of our national taxes than any country in the world.
Trump's claims that he's making taxes more democratic for the people, but it actually is a vast sucking of income and wealth upward.
On the flat tax, the more you compress the tax rates, the more you untax where the income is really made, at the top of the pyramid.
Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race.
I don't see basic income as a panacea, but we must have a new income distribution system. The old one has broken down irretrievably.