Income Quotes - Page 22

A technological revolution on the farm has led to an output explosion--but we have not yet learned to harness that explosion usefully, while protecting our farmers' right to full parity income

Our Income Tax System is a disgrace to the human race.

American businesses and upper incomes pay a larger portion of the federal taxes of our national taxes than any country in the world.

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 death tax destroys family businesses and stifles investment that leads to increases in jobs and personal income. As a result, 70 percent of family-owned businesses are not passed on to the next generation and 87 percent do not make it to the third generation.

It's not an accident that the U.S. ranks lowest of all major donor countries in the world - that is the share of our income that goes to development aid. Americans will ask whether, because were so generous privately, that makes up the difference. But it doesn't. We still rank far below other countries.

[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.

You might be a redneck if your primary source of income is the pawn shop.

There's 6 million people living in poverty today, more than when Barack Obama got elected. 6.5 million people are working part-time, most of whom want to work full-time. 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.

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

Our virtues live upon our incomes; our vices consume our capital.

President Bush listed his income as $822,000. You know what John Kerry calls someone who earns $822,000? Not even worth dating.

65% of people say that cheating on your income tax is worse than cheating on your spouse. The other 35% were women.

If you're going to grow the economy, if people are going to have more income, you have to have stability in the marketplace.

The lower half of households by wealth held just 3% of wealth in 1989 and only 1% in 2013.

After adjusting for inflation, the average income of the top 5% of households grew by 38% from 1989 to 2013. …By comparison, the average real income of the other 95% of households grew less than 10%.

I'm just trying to get used to living on a fixed income. Now, it's going to get unfixed.

A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in a very small, and generally very inferior, society, may well be illiberal and cross.

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.

It is a general maxim that all governments find a use for as much money as they can raise. Indeed, they have commonly demands for more...I take this as a settled truth, that they will all spend as much as their revenue; that is, will live up to their income.

In F-111, I question the collusion between the Vietnam War, income taxes, consumerism, and advertising.

Freedom ultimately is dignity. And dignity, not income, is the opposite of poverty.

There are probably no more market-oriented individuals on the planet, than low income people.

Our desires have a way of getting bigger with our incomes.

The important prediction is not the automobile, but the parking problem; not radio, but the soap opera; not the income tax, but the expense account; not the Bomb, but the nuclear stalemate