Growth can also involve producing services instead of goods. In particular, a major expansion of public and caring services (like child care,… — Jim Stanford Copy Share Image
I lived in lower-income neighborhoods in the inner city. Across the street were dark parts of the world. I've experienced the gamut,… — Kenna Copy Share Image
Do not really like rich people, as they make us poor people feel dopey and inadequate. Not that we are poor. I… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
If we assume that the purpose of the economy is to serve and improve the welfare of the entire body of citizens,… — Edward S. Herman Copy Share Image
How many elderly people you see have to leave the house they've had their whole life because their fixed income and their… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
Most of the presidential candidates' economic packages involve 'tax breaks,' which is when the government, amid great fanfare, generously decides not to… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
First, in order to build a business, you have to be able to sell because Sales = Income. When income is lacking,… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
Remember life insurance is intended as income replacement to help dependents and or/spouse pay for things that your income would have covered.… — Michelle Singletary Copy Share Image
In America, we've set up a system whereby when you take on college debt, you will never have to pay more than… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Just look at that Forbes 400. Takes a billion three to get on the Forbes 400 this year. And the aggregate wealth… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Everything is a tradeoff. Everywhere you leave, you leave some good things. The more successful you are, the harder it is to… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
People that live in the Northeast are leaving the Northeast for a whole host of reasons. They're relocating in Southern states and… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The rates of soda consumption in our poorest communities cannot be explained by individual consumer preferences alone, but rather are linked to… — Geoffrey Canada Copy Share Image
'Inequality' has become the political theme/slogan of our time in both Europe and the U.S., yet political leaders do not even bother… — Paul Singer Copy Share Image
More than half of all people filing income tax forms use someone else to prepare the forms for them. Then they have… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If increasing income equality is the goal, it might be wiser to put money into infrastructure than to subsidize manufacturing. Construction also… — Christina Romer Copy Share Image
... Member Countries shall take necessary action and/or shall establish negotiations, individually or in groups, with the oil companies with a view… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
You take the huge income that comes with a big gas tax, and you use it to pay off regressive taxes like… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
I mean, that's the least we should do for these men and women [veterans and military spouses], is to make sure they… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
The average net worth of the lower half of the distribution, representing 62 million households, was $11,000 in 2013. About one-fourth of… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
President Obama believes that income inequality is one of the most pressing matters facing the nation. If we are going to be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most of the people in the upper income brackets are not rich and do not have wealth sheltered offshore. They are typically… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
President Obama's version of America is a divided one - pitting us against each other based on our income level, gender, and… — Mia Love Copy Share Image
Having a super-brain does not suddenly make you a dictator of the world. So we don't have to fear the scenarios of… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
For families across the UK who are income-poor, but more than that, whose lives are blighted by worklessness, educational failure, family breakdown,… — Iain Duncan Smith Copy Share Image
I won't sell any Facebook shares as long as I'm on the board. When I leave, all my Facebook shares will be… — Donald E. Graham Copy Share Image
Washington, of course, aside from being one of the most mismanaged, crime-ridden cities on the planet, is a place where 535 federal… — Charley Reese Copy Share Image
A useful analogy is to see traditional societies as relying on instantaneous (or minimally delayed) and constantly replenished solar income, while modern… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
The practice of thrift is not outdated. We must discipline ourselves to live within our incomes even if it means going without… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
What binds us together is not common education, common race, common income levels, common politics, common nationality, common accents, common jobs, or… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
There are two definitions of deflation. Most people think of it simply as prices going down. But debt deflation is what happens… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
The left is being funded primarily by the drug traffickers who provide this tax money and that's why the guerrillas in Colombia,… — Alma Guillermoprieto Copy Share Image
Unless the fundamental categories of economics such as 'property' were to be redefined in a radically personal way the liberal rationalist curse… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
I get tired of hearing people, well-meaning people, talking about African-American kids or Hispanic kids as if they're all the same. Which… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
Once you do lose a job, there are not a lot of social supports for you. You lose health insurance because we… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
That girls should not marry for money we are all agreed. A lady who can sell herself for a title or an… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Every person in this country who has the desire and ability should be able to get all the education they need regardless… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
The collapse of communism in essence added tens and tens of millions of people to the world labor supply, and the people… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
One of the reasons that Social Security is in so much trouble is that the only funding stream comes from people who… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
Clean energy is about offering people the opportunity to do what's right for themselves and the people they love. It's about reducing… — Gloria Reuben Copy Share Image
![“Just look at that Forbes 400. Takes a billion three to get on the Forbes 400 this year. And the aggregate wealth is just staggering. And those people are paying less percentage of their total income to the federal government than their receptionists are. [...] I'll bet a million dollars against…” quote by Warren Buffett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6fd/warren-buffett-183_average_just-look-at-that-forbes-400-takes-a-bil_1970232.png)
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