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The philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped.… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
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A meritocracy is a system in which the people who are the luckiest in their health and genetic endowment; luckiest in terms… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
If you want to get at African American poverty, the income gap, wealth gap, achievement gap, that the most important thing is… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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Does that mean that all vestiges of past discrimination would be eliminated, that the income gap or the wealth gap or the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We had all the advantages of being in, you know, the '50s and the '60s, where a one-income household could actually support… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Economists typically think that your happiness goes up as you get more money, but the more you have, the less each additional… — Emily Oster Copy Share Image
Below an income of ... $60,000 a year, people are unhappy, and they get progressively unhappier the poorer they get. Above that,… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Life is now a war zone, and as such, the number of people considered disposable has grown exponentially, and this includes low… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
70% of children born into poverty will never make it to the middle class. The uncomfortable truth is that there are now… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
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Deflation means a slowdown of income growth. Markets shrink, new capital investment and employment also taper off, so wages decline. That is… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
The biggest industrial sector next to real estate is oil, gas and other mineral resources. They don't report any taxable income, because… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
The bottom quarter of the human population has only three-quarters of one percent of global household income, about one thirty-second of the… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
Another son came along 18 months later, although we waited four years to have the third, because Mitt was still in school… — Ann Romney Copy Share Image
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To exist as an advertisement of her husband's income, or her father's generosity, has become a second nature to many a woman… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
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The securitisation of mortgages added a new dimension of systemic risk. Financial engineers claimed they were reducing risks through geographic diversification: in… — George Soros Copy Share Image
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Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
If a woman is making $85,000 a year, putting aside 20% of her income, putting it in a bank, earning very little...Over… — Sallie Krawcheck Copy Share Image
Recollect that to a woman who gets her living by her pen, 'time is money,' as it is to an artist. Therefore,… — Eliza Leslie Copy Share Image
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Hillary Clinton, told a reporter that she and Bill aren't truly well-off, even though they're incredibly rich because they pay income taxes… — Peter Sagal Copy Share Image
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