Poverty is less a matter of income than of prospects. While the incomes of the poor have steadily risen through Great Society… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
I don't think you have to earn your income as an artist to be an artist. But if you are an artist,… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I've said repeatedly publicly, and other members have, that until you adjust the eligibility for entitlements, do things like raising the age… — Mitch McConnell Copy Share Image
To obtain financial freedom, one must be either a business owner, an investor, or both, generating passive income, particularly on a monthly… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
The death tax destroys family businesses and stifles investment that leads to increases in jobs and personal income. As a result, 70… — Jennifer Dunn Copy Share Image
If you are born into a family below the national median income, we provide you with an additional $500, and for every… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Structured settlements are a common way for people who have been injured to receive an insurance payout. The periodic payments provide ongoing… — Suze Orman Copy Share Image
When I was in the Senate, I had a number of trade deals that came before me, and I held them all… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
No solution [to the problem of poverty] is so effective as providing income to the poor. Whether in the form of food,… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I tried for modelling work but it was a bit slow and that's when I took a part-time job at McDonalds. It… — Sharon Stone Copy Share Image
Everyone has a telephone. Whether they can afford it or not. It's one of those things that people have, regardless of their… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
In general, anyone who paid the long distance telephone tax will get the refund on their 2006 federal income tax return. This… — Virgil Goode Copy Share Image
Poverty, in the end, is a state of dispossession and deprivation in which people are not only deprived of their income, but… — James Gustave Speth Copy Share Image
Practically all government attempts to redistribute wealth and income tend to smother productive incentives and lead toward general impoverishment. — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Low-income people, racial or ethnic minorities, pregnant women, seniors, people with special needs, people in rural areas - they all have a… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
In 1848, Karl Marx said, a progressive income tax is needed to transfer wealth and power to the state. Thus, Marx's Communist… — James Traficant Copy Share Image
If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate,… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
The top 10 per cent of the US population appropriated 91 per cent of income growth between 1989 and 2006, while the… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
An across-the-board, top-to-bottom cut in personal and corporate income taxes ... to expand the incentives and opportunities of private expenditures. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
There are 11 states in the United States that in the last 50 years instituted an income tax. So I looked at… — Arthur Laffer Copy Share Image
We need a movement that says in a highly competitive global economy all of our kids who have the ability, the qualifications… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
The highest-income Americans don't need tax-free health insurance, mortgage interest deductions or deferred taxation on retirement funds. — Steven Rattner Copy Share Image
Most intellectuals outside the field of economics show remarkably little interest in learning even the basic fundamentals of economics. Yet they do… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Trade reform has also been linked to increased income disparity as skilled workers have captured more benefits from globalization than their unskilled… — Stephen F. Lynch Copy Share Image