Income Quotes

Eastern Washington families and businesses should be able to deduct every penny of state and local sales tax they pay throughout the year from their federal tax bill, especially when people in most states are deducting their state income taxes.
Cathy McMorris

Able, Year, State

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.
Cliff Stearns

Home, College, Since

There's just one thing I can't figure out. My income tax!
Nat King Cole

We've outpaced Japan and Europe in creating new jobs, but there's major competition from India and China. It's not enough to make income tax cuts permanent.
Ernest Istook

Enough, Tax, Jobs

I favor the abolition of all Social Security, Medicare and estate taxes. In their place, we should create a simple income tax system that has no deductions or credits at all.
Ari Fleischer

Simple, Place, Social

In fact, Social Security is the only source of income nationwide for 29 percent of unmarried elderly women.
Ginny Brown-Waite

Women, Fact, Social

On the other end of the spectrum, these women who do live long enough to collect Social Security face the challenge of being disproportionately dependent on the Social Security system for retirement income.
Ginny Brown-Waite

Women, Live, End

When you tax capital gains income, you don't help the economy, you hurt the economy, which is why President Kennedy, President Reagan, President Clinton and President Bush all believed we should have a lower rate for capital gains.
Rob Portman

Hurt, Help, Why

The potential for Home Star to create jobs is proven and real. In Vermont, our statewide energy efficiency utility, Efficiency Vermont, created more than 430 jobs in 2007 and 2008, generating more than $40 million in income.
Peter Welch

Home, Real, Energy

In a system where the cost of care is hidden by taxes levied on your income, property, and business activities, it is no wonder why so many Americans rely on Medicaid to pay their long term care.
Michael Burgess

Business, Care, Long

I had a couple come in with a negative amortization mortgage on a house that costs way too much relative to their income. They're consuming real estate, not investing in it.
Chris Cooper

Real, Negative, House

It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.
E. F. Schumacher

Work, Said, Might

The natural capital is not income, but we spend our natural capital as if it were revenue, as if it were going to come back next year without any problems, whereas these renewals in nature can take hundreds of years.
Susan George

Nature, Problems, Year

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

Writing, Problem, Far

The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction, cash flow is reality.
Chris Chocola

Business, Reality, Learned

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

Country, Mission, Decency

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.
Harold Washington

Made, America, Show

While no amount of financial wealth can guarantee an experience of prosperity, it is possible to experience prosperity at almost any level of income, except when we are unable to meet our basic physical needs.
Shakti Gawain

Experience, While, Possible

Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense.
Max Frisch

Guilty, Level, Above

And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hardly less, if it is less, than that exerted by the way in which it is earned.
Alfred Marshall

Character, Person, Often

I never stopped making pictures. There were times when more of my income was coming from other sources, and I had to devote more time to television and movies and records.
Martin Mull

Time, Movies, Making

In New Orleans, where I'm from, the average household income, with two working parents, two kids, a dog and a little fence is $16,000 a year, so $15,000 for a movie sounds pretty good.
Anthony Mackie

Good, Parents, Two

Capital, however capital may be defined, would practically cease to exist as an income producing fund, for the simple reason that if money, wherewith to buy capital, could be obtained for one-half of one per cent, capital itself could command no higher price.
John Buchanan Robinson

Money, Simple, May

People can change the volume, the location and the composition of their income, and they can do so in response to changes in government policies.
Arthur Laffer

Change, Government, Changes

People can also change the timing of when they earn and receive their income in response to government policies.
Arthur Laffer

Change, Government, Timing

The income effects in an economy always sum to zero.
Arthur Laffer

Economy, Sum, Effects

Right now, too many women who reach retirement age find themselves widowed or single, relying on their Social Security check for over half of their income.
Judy Biggert

Age, Women, Single

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

Real, America, Why

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.
Joseph Stiglitz

Change, Around, Both

If you or me go to the gas station to fill up our car and it costs us much more than we expected, it will zap our discretionary income. We won't have the extra money to buy that washing machine or new winter coat-all big ticket items that are important to economic growth.
Maria Bartiromo

Money, Car, Important

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