Income Quotes - Page 2

• Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.

  William Feather

  Women, Lying, Age

  William Feather (1949). “The Business of Life”

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• Speaking of tax fairness, it was Senator Kerry who voted to increase the income tax on senior citizens on Social Security, earning as little as $32,000 a year.

  William Weld

  Senior, Years, Citizens

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• Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Money, Husband

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• I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.

  Barack Obama

  Family, Years, Payroll Tax

  Speech in Dover, New Hampshire, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. September 12, 2008.

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• All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

  Samuel Butler

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Notebooks (1912) ch. 1

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• I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday.

  Noel Coward

  Birthday, Tuesday, Age

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• Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Philosophical, People, Realizing

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1997). “De oratore: Book III ; De fato ; Paradoxa stoicorum ; De partitione oratoria”

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• 1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS.

  Ron Paul

  Good Years, Irs, Amendments

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• Overcome your barriers, intend the best, and be patient. You will enjoy more balance, more growth, more income, and more fun!

  Jack Canfield

  Inspirational, Fun, Growth

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• The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.

  Will Rogers

  Lying, Liars, Golf

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• The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice.

  William Booth

  Careers, Prostitution, Profession

  William Booth (2014). “In Darkest England and the Way Out”, p.51, Cambridge University Press

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• A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Wise, Men, Advice

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.346, Oxford University Press

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• Low-income seniors who choose to enroll in a drug discount plan will receive $600 of Federal assistance in 2004 and 2005 to further defray the costs of their medications.

  Jim Gerlach

  Senior, Drug, Low Income

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• The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income.

  George Foreman

  Sports, Retirement, Boxing

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• Captain Kirk has been a source of pleasure and income for a long time.

  William Shatner

  Long, Captain Kirk, Captains

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• Well, today people have to be self-reliant if they want a secure retirement income.

  Scott D. Cook

  Retirement, Self, People

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• When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income.

  Chi Chi Rodriguez

  Retirement, Husband, Wife

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• In those countries where income taxes are lower than in the United States, the ability to defer the payment of U.S. tax by retaining income in the subsidiary companies provides a tax advantage for companies operating through overseas subsidiaries that is not available to companies operating solely in the United States. Many American investors properly made use of this deferral in the conduct of their foreign investment.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, United States, Use

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• Trade reform has also been linked to increased income disparity as skilled workers have captured more benefits from globalization than their unskilled counterparts.

  Stephen F. Lynch

  Reform, Benefits, Globalization

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• The New Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice.

  Garet Garrett

  Justice, Economic, Social

  Garet Garrett (1944). “The Revolution was”

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• According to the study, approximately 16.7 million U.S. workers born in Latin America had a combined gross income of $450 billion last year, of which 93 percent was spent locally.

  Luis Gutierrez

  Latin, Years, America

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• There are thousands and thousands of free programs available for people of any income level.

  Matthew Lesko

  People, Levels, Program

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• I don't know if I can live on my income or not - the government won't let me try it.

  Bob Thaves

  Government, Trying, Taxes

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• You could make a case that women addicted men to their sexuality and then withdrew their sexuality until we provided them with a source of income.

  Warren Farrell

  Men, Sexuality, Source

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• I suspect that writer's block afflicts mainly people who have some stable and ample source of income outside of writing. So far it hasn't been a problem.

  Fred Saberhagen

  Block, Writing, People

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