Income Quotes

If the Lord had meant us to pay income taxes, he'd have made us smart enough to prepare the return.

Land is an emotional subject with a farmer in India because it is his only means of income.

I believe we stand strongly against having the tax code used to make the income disparity in America any worse than it already.

Do away with the corporate loopholes that allow major profitable corporations to stash their money in the Cayman Islands and not pay a nickel in some cases in federal income taxes.

There are certain things--as, a spider, a ghost, The income-tax, gout, an umbrella for three-- That I hate, but the thing that I hate the most Is a thing they call the Sea.

Call me communist, but I think that's something that everyone, regardless of their family's income, has a right to, and I was fortunate enough to have a mother who felt that way as well.

We have to adjust the age retirement for younger people. People of my income level are going to have to have their benefits means-tested. Democrats are going to want a simpler tax code.

In talking about equality and asking vehemently for its realization, nobody advocates a curtailment of his own present income.

For the primary and secondary school years, we will aid public schools serving low-income families and assist students in both public and private schools.

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

Whenever I think about the budgetary problems, I think about the problems of Errol Flynn ... reconciling net income with gross habits.

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.

In order to have middle-income, middle-paying jobs, the kinds of jobs that allow people to get ahead, you have to have higher level of training and skill acquisition and education than ever before.

being in the middle class is a feeling as well as an income level.

Real median household incomes in the U.S. were basically the same in 1989 as in 2014. But we are also seeing similar challenges in the U.K. in the stagnation of real wages.

Paying debt service to banks leaves less income to buy goods and services.

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.

If you look at payments to labor as a proportion of national income or gross domestic product, you find profits going way up, investment and savings going up.

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.

There's nothing wrong with having a 9-to-5 job, but figure out a way to have another stream of income.

Having a separate fund for the things in life that happen, helps keep the emergency fund in tact in case you lose your job or income.

I understand why many are still poor or struggling to make just a middle-income lifestyle. I'm a fiscal conservative, but I also have compassion for people who make financial mistakes.

We are trying to get a border wall to protect millions of low income Americans against folks who aren't supposed to be here. So, it's a national security.

The middle income families in America have been crushed over the last four years.

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.

I will promote savings and investment by maintaining the 15% rate on capital gains and dividends. I will eliminate the tax entirely for those with annual income below $200,000.

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.

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.

I had come to a stage in life where I didn't need to earn an income, I didn't need to earn a reputation, I didn't need fame, I didn't need any of the things you might want in your early career.

I also grew up building theatrical scenery. I spent many years building scenery as a large part of my income and that allowed me to really develop my shop skills.

We think people who make a lot of income and have a lot of net-worth are pretty well served.

Class is not a fixed designation in this country. We are an upwardly mobile society with a lot of movement between income groups.

Unlike every other retirement vehicle, such as IRAs and 401(k)s, you receive a tax deduction for making contributions to your HSA but don't have to pay income taxes on withdrawals.

I had been working on a second book with [David] Petraeus called Relentless. Obviously that book and the income that it would have generated went away.

My mother brought accordion home. She was going to learn to play it so she could teach it and increase her income. And I got fascinated with it, so she backed off and let me do it.

Well, it's not really the right word, but freedom is kind of a hobby with me, and I have disposable income that I'll spend to find out how to get people more of it.

The primary driver of final consumer demand is, of course, the level of disposable income.

It is a foregone opportunity that we could have a trillion dollars more of income for the United States if we were producing at capacity rather than falling so far short of it.

Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.

If a man has important work, and enough leisure and income to enable him to do it properly, he is in possession of as much happiness as is good for any of the children of Adam.

The secret of success lies never in the amount of money, but in the relation of income to outgo.

Everyone has a telephone. Whether they can afford it or not. It's one of those things that people have, regardless of their income.

Once you taste the second income in the household and it changes your lifestyle, you get used to it.

I want to make sure that the American worker has an opportunity to see their wages rise and their incomes increase.

I always had a fairly decent income, coming in just from the art.

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.

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 was the founder of the Cartoon Bank in the 90s. I was interested in finding ways for cartoonists to supplement their incomes.

When my mother makes out her income tax return every year, under occupation she writes, eroding my daughter's self-esteem.

In reality long-term travel has nothing to do with demographics, age, ideology, income, and everything to do with personal outlook.