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Annual income is £ 20, the cost is 19, you will feel happiness. If annual income of £ 20, the cost is £ 20.6, you will see suffering
People like me, whose income largely comes from dividends, should pay more taxes. The problem is that taxes aren't used efficiently.
One of the most important of all the causes of great inequality of income is the inheritance of a great fortune by a small minority.
The average family earning minimum wage spends 141 percent of their income struggling to meet basic needs - food, shelter, clothing.
China's continued growth and rising household income are creating opportunities for lower-income economies in low-cost manufacturing.
Carried interest... you're making money on somebody else's capital. It's not on your own. If that's not income, I don't know what is.
I don't believe, the president doesn't believe, that the high income tax cuts work, period. I don't think the evidence supports that.
I feel awful for women who are trying to raise kids on their own, with zero income and no fathers present - that's single motherhood.
We happily give up our freedom and our income in exchange for having someone else take responsibility for telling us what to do next.
My favorite part of festival season is probably the disposable income at hand for me... I get booked for more, and I make more money.
Rock 'n' roll started to make so much money and generated so much income for the record companies that suddenly it was no longer evil.
The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can handle it.
The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an affinity for income.
Whenever I think about the budgetary problems, I think about the problems of Errol Flynn ... reconciling net income with gross habits.
If you'd be wealthy, think of saving, more than of getting: The Indies have not made Spain rich, because her Outgoes equal her Incomes.
I've been around low-income people all of my life. I mean, growing up, low income, the community where I've chosen to live, low-income.
When I speak of The Case for Equality I mean human equality; and that, of course, can only mean one thing: it means equality of income.
To say that I'm enjoying a millionaire's lifestyle-well, I can tell you, I guess a millionaire's income doesn't go very far these days.
The great thing about being on a television show is that it usually provides you with fairly steady income so you can go and do things.
What you do with your billable time determines your current income, but what you do with your non-billable time determines your future.
It seems to me that it's better to allow people to have more spendable income.That helps 'LO stimulate the economy and create more jobs.
Basic income would give people the most important freedom: the freedom of deciding for themselves what they want to do with their lives.
We've created rules and taxes on top of every aspiration of people, and the net result is we're not growing fast, income is not growing.
Instead of a universal basic income, we could have a basic income guarantee. Or, as economists prefer to call it, a negative income tax.
If the economy is growing fast, there is call for a distributing income from the rich to the poor to to put in place social safety nets.
I'll tell you who doesn't have any personal responsibility. Companies like General Electric and others who pay absolutely no income tax.
In this country, we have partnerships, we have S corps, we have LLCs, we have a series of entities that do not pay corporate income tax.
The Putin regime's income comes from oil and gas exports. If we could crash the price of these commodities, we could bankrupt the regime.
The highest-income Americans don't need tax-free health insurance, mortgage interest deductions or deferred taxation on retirement funds.
Textbooks don't teach people how to avoid paying any income tax. But that's what an army of tax lawyers and corporate tax accountants do.
The zero-income-tax-rate states have far faster growth in tax revenues than did the states with highest income tax rate over this period.
The U.S. has some of the most significant income inequality in the developed world, yet people seem routinely to underestimate that fact.
The best way to boost the economy is to redistribute wealth downward, as poorer people tend to spend a higher proportion of their income.
Health is the one thing we all have in common regardless of race, creed, or income. Everyone should participate in creating the solutions.
Pell Grants are, and have been, critically important tools in making higher education a possibility for lower- and middle-income students.
I've got people handling the media. I employ at the moment two people. No-one is paying income tax on the money they use to employ people.
I think it's terrible for people in effect to say that income from investment should be taxed at a much lower rate than income from labor.
The power to gossip is more democratically distributed than power, property, and income, and, certainly, than the freedom to speak openly.
My dad died in 1980, and I found out afterwards from mum that my piano lessons, which cost £2 a week, took up nearly a third of his income.
I can't control my own income, I can't control my own destiny, I can't even control my own farm if I'm a farmer. This is not going to last.
There are people who enjoy the life in England but don't pay a penny in tax, whereas my footballers pay more than half their income in tax.
There is slow growth, but it is positive slow growth. At the same time, ratios of debt-to-incomes go down. That's a beautiful deleveraging.
We need to see the FLSA and the minimum wage as part of a larger struggle to cut poverty and to address the challenge of income inequality.
We have got to make sure that every qualified American in this country who wants to go to college can go to college -- regardless of income.
No change of job, no increased income, no new home, no new electronic device, or no new spouse is going to make things better inside of you.
The pandemic has proved true over and over again what was already well known: that income and wealth are protective when it comes to health.
I was the kind of poor where I knew right away I had less than everyone around me. Our environment, our physical space reflected our income.
Finance industry executives earn an annual income, including benefits, grants and bonuses, that can reach over eight million shekels a year.
I think that Governor Romney operates on the capital gains tax, his investments, what he lives off of instead of doing it off of his income.
What the voters want to know is who is going to get out there, fight for them, and deal with the income gap that exists in the nation today.