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I'd rather be a 'THINKER' - Two Healthy Incomes No Kids Early Retirement! -- Kaye D. Walters
Incomes went up for everybody. Manufacturing jobs went up also in the 1990s, if we're actually going to look at the facts. -- Hillary Clinton
If you'd be wealthy, think of saving, more than of getting: The Indies have not made Spain rich, because her Outgoes equal her Incomes. -- Benjamin Franklin
Equal pay isn't just a women's issue; when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits. -- Michael M. Honda
Historically, if you look at people like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, people with disposable incomes have always been agricultural innovators. -- Sandra Lerner
American businesses and upper incomes pay a larger portion of the federal taxes of our national taxes than any country in the world. -- Jim DeMint
Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation. -- Atal Bihari Vajpayee
You have to let the market reward effort and skill. But a system in which inequality of incomes constantly increases over time is worrisome. -- Timothy Noah
Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip. -- John Locke
Our incomes should be like our shoes; if too small, they will gall and pinch us; but if too large, they will cause us to stumble and to trip. -- Charles Caleb Colton
People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes. -- Thomas Sowell
People with lower incomes tend to give a greater percentage of their incomes to help others and show greater empathy and compassion - perhaps because they know they might face the same circumstances. -- Kavita Ramdas
Obviously, people with low or even moderate incomes could not afford such savings rates, and even diligent savings from their low wages would not be enough to pay for either retirement or healthcare. -- William Greider
Proponents of the Central America Free Trade Agreement have conveniently ignored this fundamental fact: the effect of trade on incomes in Central America and how to alleviate the adverse consequences of trade liberalization on the poor. -- Stephen F. Lynch
This is an exciting time for farmers and ranchers of all types and sizes as agriculture is a bright spot in the American economy. In 2011, agricultural exports hit a record high and producers saw their best incomes in nearly 40 years. -- Tom Vilsack
There is nothing inherently fair about equalizing incomes. If the government penalizes you for working harder than somebody else, that is unfair. If you save your money but retire with the same pension as a free-spending neighbor, that is also unfair. -- Arthur C. Brooks
What is a danger is that we stay stuck in a new normal where unemployment rates stay high, people who have jobs see their incomes go up, businesses make big profits. But they're learned to do more with less, and so they don't hire. -- Barack Obama
When incomes and bonuses decrease, revenues falter, and businesses stumble, it's more important than ever to give - not necessarily more, but in a way that matters more. When incomes are down and wallets are stretched, the effectiveness of our giving is what really counts. -- Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
The philosophical point is that our happiness and wellbeing is not based on incomes rising. This is not just the wisdom of sages but of ordinary people. Prosperity is more social and psychological: it's about identification, affiliation, participation in society and a sense of purpose. -- Tim Jackson
The argument of socialists, that people really want to share, beyond a reasonable level of charity, is rubbish, though it is espoused by a lot of rich, pious hypocrites who want to share only enough to avoid widespread starvation, mob violence, and government seizure of more of their incomes. -- Conrad Black
The bottom line is there are lots of problems that were not created by government. The biggest one is loss of middle class incomes, loss of good-paying jobs which was created by technology and globalization. Above all, when you can move a job to China or India, it reduces wages. -- Chuck Schumer
We will be returning to historical levels of inequality. We'll view post-war America as a kind of strange interlude not to be repeated. It won't be the dreams that we all had that virtually all incomes go up in lockstep at three percent a year. It hurts to give that up. -- Tyler Cowen
I will not accept a new wave of fiscal retrenchment, of belt-tightening, without asking people at the top to make their contribution, to make an additional contribution. I don't think you can ask people on middle and low incomes, who, after all, are the vast majority of the British population, to bear the brunt of this adjustment. -- Nick Clegg
Most high-income people in our country do not realize that their incomes are being subsidized by their protection from competition from highly skilled people who are prevented from immigrating to the United States. But we need such skills in order to staff our productive economy, so that the standard of living for Americans as a whole can grow. -- Alan Greenspan
At a time when the GOP is playing games with the debt limit, a member of the Supreme Court is refusing to recuse himself from matters he has a financial interest in, and middle class incomes are stagnant, many want to change the subject. I don't. This was a prank, and a silly one. I'm focused on my work. -- Anthony Weiner
In the 40 years I've been working as an economist and investor, I have never seen such a disconnect between the asset market and the economic reality... Asset markets are in the sky, and the economy of the ordinary people is in the dumps, where their real incomes adjusted for inflation are going down and asset markets are going up. -- Marc Faber
I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 - the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president; the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot. -- Barack Obama
As long as women are in the work force making their own money and decisions, men are going to have to realize that this way of life is here to stay - because it takes two incomes to make it and more now. The sooner you address your style of saving and spending with your mate the better off your relationship will be. -- Patti Stanger
It's all very well for us to sit here in the west with our high incomes and cushy lives, and say it's immoral to violate the sovereignty of another state. But if the effect of that is to bring people in that country economic and political freedom, to raise their standard of living, to increase their life expectancy, then don't rule it out. -- Niall Ferguson
We've got to create more good jobs with rising incomes. -- Hillary Clinton
Our desires have a way of getting bigger with our incomes. -- Ivy Compton-Burnett
Our virtues live upon our incomes; our vices consume our capital. -- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
The greatest problem America faces is the decline of middle class incomes. -- Charles Schumer
The best defence against mafia business is full declaration of assets and incomes. -- Milos Zeman
Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes. -- Gore Vidal
Ultimately, stable growth will ensure that urban and rural incomes increase and people's lives improve. -- Li Keqiang
In the typical economic recovery, a resurgent housing sector helps fuel reemployment and rising incomes. -- Ben Bernanke
In 2011, agricultural exports hit a record high and producers saw their best incomes in nearly 40 years. -- Tom Vilsack
Wealth comes from multiple incomes. Always think of growth and new businesses to create new income streams. -- Ehab Atalla
We cannot let the future of our children be decided by their zip codes and family incomes. -- Sharad Vivek Sagar
Sales = income. The reason so many people have low incomes is that they are poor at selling. -- Robert Kiyosaki
The reason families need two incomes today is not to support themselves but to support the government. -- Dick Armey
... the top 10 percent of incomes pay 70 percent of the income taxes and cast about 25 percent of the vote. -- Dick Morris
Unemployment is low, incomes are up, poverty is down - and that's going to be a lasting change. -- Barack Obama
The real solution is to improve the incomes of the poor and provide their children with decent education. -- Carol Bellamy
Today, its expensive prescription medications burdening seniors on fixed incomes with thousands of dollars in yearly out-of-pocket costs. -- Jim Gerlach
Globalization is stirring widespread economic anxiety, and middle class incomes have stagnated while a class of super-rich has emerged. -- Nina Easton
There is no escaping the fact that when the taxation of large incomes is excessive, they tend to disappear. -- Calvin Coolidge
You cannot make your opportunities concur with the opportunities of people whose incomes are ten times greater than yours. -- Steve Martin
For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth. -- John Maynard Keynes
I want to make sure that the American worker has an opportunity to see their wages rise and their incomes increase. -- Rick Santorum
Equal pay isn't just a women's issue; when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits. -- Michael M. Honda
With rising incomes, the share of expenditures for food products declines. The resulting shift in expenditures affects demand patterns and employment structures. -- Ernst Engel
There is slow growth, but it is positive slow growth. At the same time, ratios of debt-to-incomes go down. That's a beautiful deleveraging. -- Ray Dalio
All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's; a few gifted individuals manage to do both. -- Hector Hugh Munro
I was the founder of the Cartoon Bank in the 90s. I was interested in finding ways for cartoonists to supplement their incomes. -- Robert Mankoff
I was the founder of the 'Cartoon Bank' in the '90s. I was interested in finding ways for cartoonists to supplement their incomes. -- Robert Mankoff
Open rehearsals reach people who might not otherwise hear the Philharmonic - people on fixed incomes, people who can't move easily at night, students. -- Zubin Mehta
During Governor Jennifer Granholm's administration, Michigan has experienced job losses, declining personal incomes, diminishing home values, and the highest unemployment rate in the nation. -- Tim Walberg
Most families rely on two incomes to make ends meet, and when a woman earns less, we put working families at a huge disadvantage. -- Ann McLane Kuster
We have to build an economy that works for everyone, not just those at the top. That means we need new jobs, good jobs, with rising incomes. -- Hillary Clinton
The immense majority of intellectually eminent men disbelieve in the Christian religion, but they conceal the fact in public, because they are afraid of losing their incomes. -- Bertrand Russell
We [with Donald Trump] just have a different view about what's best for growing the economy, how we make investments that will actually produce jobs and rising incomes. -- Hillary Clinton
I will do everything that I can to make sure that you have good jobs, with rising incomes, that your kids have good educations from preschool through college. -- Hillary Clinton
The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes. -- John Maynard Keynes
Accounting incomes were reduced by discrepancy [ but] "the net amount paid by lawyers for lawyerly discrepancy is close to zippo. In this case, the goddess of justice was blind. -- Charlie Munger
I've proposed reforms on taxes, regulations, and trade that will all have the effect of keeping jobs and wealth in America for our workers - and dramatically boosting incomes. -- Donald Trump
It is untrue that some are poor because others are rich. If an order of society in which incomes were equal replaced the capitalist order, everyone would become poorer. -- Ludwig von Mises
I want to take some of the ideas that worked when my husband was president, and we ended up with 23 million new jobs and incomes went up for everybody... -- Hillary Clinton
There is a tremendous movement on to get lower taxes on earned incomes. Then will come the real problem, 'Who among us on salary are earning our income?' -- Will Rogers
I believe that there should be a very much heavier progressive tax on very large incomes, a tax which should increase in a very marked fashion for the gigantic incomes. -- Theodore Roosevelt
My mission is to raise incomes for hard working middle class families. If you work hard and do your part you should be able to get ahead and stay ahead. -- Bernie Sanders
The 'global warming scare' is being used as a political tool to increase government control over American lives, incomes and decision making. It has no place in the Society's activities. -- Harrison Schmitt
The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else,and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit. -- George Orwell
At cheaper and nearer seats of Learning parents with slender incomes may place their sons in a course of education putting them on a level with the sons of the Richest. -- James Madison
Absolute justice demands that mens incomes and rewards should ... vary, and that some have more than others-so long as human justice is upheld by the provision of equal opportunity for all. -- Sayyid Qutb
Close loopholes, close the special interest Washington carve outs and that means more incomes subject to taxation so we`re going to lower the rates on our businesses and be fair. -- Paul Ryan
I feel very strongly that we need to change the way we do trade because it has been one of the major factors that lead to decline of middle class incomes. -- Charles Schumer
Real median household incomes in the U.S. were basically the same in 1989 as in 2014. But we are also seeing similar challenges in the U.K. in the stagnation of real wages. -- Mariana Mazzucato
Happiness does not come in large incomes or the most exotic home, it comes in small doses of a great self esteem which can be built upon the strengths of an individual. -- Nicholas A. McGirr
The left's obsession with the high incomes of corporate executives never seems to extend to equally high - or higher - incomes of professional athletes, entertainers, or best-selling authors like Danielle Steel. -- Thomas Sowell
Yes, free markets tend to produce unequal incomes. We should not be ashamed of that. On the contrary, our system is the envy of the world and should be a source of pride. -- Arthur C. Brooks
The long-run historical tendency of capitalism has not only been to increase real incomes more or less proportionately nearly all along the line, but to benefit the masses even more than the rich. -- Henry Hazlitt
Stars didn't have to worry as they were on long term contracts and were able to enjoy their vacations without worrying about tomorrow. Few had financial worries due to large incomes and little taxes. -- Pola Negri
And a revolution of automation finds machines replacing men in the mines and mills of America, without replacing their incomes or their training or their needs to pay the family doctor, grocer and landlord. -- John F. Kennedy
If we cannot return to fiscal integrity because the public prefers profusion and prodigality over balanced budgets, we cannot escape paying the price, which is ever lower incomes and standards of living for all. -- Hans F. Sennholz
Poverty is less a matter of income than of prospects. While the incomes of the poor have steadily risen through Great Society largesse, their prospects have plummeted as families have broken into dependent fragments. -- George Gilder
The aeroplane should open a fruitful occupation for women. I see no reason they cannot realize handsome incomes by carrying passengers between adjacent towns, from parcel delivery, taking photographs or conducting schools of flying. -- Harriet Quimby
At my public school I had hated every other face for fear the owner was a lord, at university, I was to court the rich while doubting whether there should be great inequalities between incomes. -- Henry Green
Good heavens, of what un costly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons. -- James Russell Lowell
I think that there is a strong argument that our [USA's] leadership, our strength, our influence begins with having an economy that is producing good jobs with rising incomes, and I see the connection there. -- Hillary Clinton

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