Wages Quotes - Page 8

If you've been frugal during your life and tried to save, you're penalised by the tax system. You pay tax on your wages, your savings and even your private pension.

Ministers have received their wages, and some have their minds too much on their wages. They labor for wages, and lose sight of the sacredness and importance of the work.

Raising wages is one of my top priorities.

I am totally in favor of trade. But I want trade deals for our country that create more jobs and higher wages for American workers.

One of the major forces driving the decline in wages and the concentration of wealth at the top is the offshoring of American jobs overseas - reducing wages not only in manufacturing but also across the economy.

The fast-food industry is notorious for employing millions of Americans at poverty wages.

The factors left out of the Ricardian equation are falling wages and idle capacity.

But a tax on luxuries would no other effect than to raise their price. It would fall wholly on the consumer, and could neither increase wages nor lower profits.

But no customer is going to buy based on their existing wage structure.

The caretaker needs to be taken care of, in wages and benefits. Not enough emphasis is put on the importance of these caretakers.

Productivity is driven at the enterprise level. Better wages, better performing workplaces, are driven at the workplace level.

Thus, the same blow that strikes interest down will send wages up.

You could increase farmworker wages significantly and not change the price to the consumer at all - for instance, if you redistribute how revenue is paid out across the food chain. Labor costs, particularly farm labor, is a tiny portion of the price we pay at the supermarket.

As far as wages are concerned, the only difference between immigration and birth is that birth takes longer.

In general foreign invested companies who come to America to start a company, to open a manufacturing business or whatnot, they actually provide much higher wages than American companies.