Income Quotes

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

When your outgo exceeds your income, the upshot may be your downfall.

A lot of girls annoy me who go to university - one girl told me she was going to Oxford because it was something to do between leaving school and getting married. And I've got to pay for that being an income tax payer.

I've devoted a lot of my time and effort during the past few years to developing my advertising copywriting business to the point of where I can support my family and don't have to depend on writing fiction for my income.

Why is it that half of the households in America pay zero income tax? We need some real tax reform.

I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word "fair" in connection with income tax policies.

HUD's mission is to provide decency and sanitary housing for low and moderate income people in this country.

Evening the playing field for women workers is a matter of fairness and with women now providing a significant share of their family's income, it is a family issue.

After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits.

I'm at a point where I don't have to wait for the income from the record to survive, so I'm in a comfortable zone, but I'll make rap records as long as I feel I have something to rap about.

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

You're entitled to Medicaid regardless of your income. Don't worry about your health care.

From the employees' standpoint, in 1935, Social Security was a big gamble. Employees would be required to participate in the program, contributing a percentage of their income for their entire adult working life.

Social Security makes up a much larger share of total retirement income for unmarried women and minorities than it does for married couples, unmarried men and whites.

Indeed, in general, healthy investment returns cannot be sustained in a weak economy, and of course it is difficult to save for retirement or other goals without the income from a job.

If you're going to grow the economy, if people are going to have more income, you have to have stability in the marketplace.

Because Social Security is specifically designed to boost the retirement income of low earners with a progressive benefit formula, the program has played an enormous and necessary role in keeping Latinas out of poverty.

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

The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an affinity for income.

Let me respond with a few points, the first being that all immigrants pay taxes, income taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, gasoline taxes, cigarette taxes, every tax when they make a purchase.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

While tax refunds amount to substantial income for many Americans, current IRS rules do not allow taxpayers to directly deposit their refund into more than one account.

Since 1994, unemployment rates are lower. Median household income is higher. A greater percentage of Americans are graduating from college. Home ownership rates are higher. And the violent crime rate has decreased.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

Higher income taxes are a razor guillotine poised to descend on the bare neck of prosperity.

Sadly, this is the same old Republican story of Robin Hood in reverse - tax cuts for the rich while programs for average and low income Americans suffer.

My research in this period centered around growth, technical change, and income distribution, both how growth affected the distribution of income and how the distribution of income affected growth.

The less money you owe, the less income you'll need and the less you'll have to save for tomorrow.

That fallacy flies in the face of studies that show, every day, in every way, things are getting a little worse for America's minorities relative to the progress made by those in the top percentiles of assets and income.

These days an income is something you can't live without - or within.