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Payments to the disabled are getting slashed and people like me are getting a tax cut. Who could possibly think that is a good thing? -- Mark Haddon
The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced. If the nation doesn't want to go bankrupt, people must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance. -- Taylor Caldwell
Credit card interest payments are the dumbest money of all. -- Hill Harper
If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments. -- Steven Wright
If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments. -- Earl Wilson
Divorced men are more likely to meet their car payments than their child support obligations. -- Susan Faludi
Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments. -- Erma Bombeck
Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
At its most basic the democratic contract is a simple one: the right to vote comes with a responsibility to society, through tax payments and citizenship. -- Lucy Powell
The streets and alleys of the ward were notoriously filthy, and the contractors habitually neglected them, not failing, however, to draw their regular payments from the city treasury. -- Ray Stannard Baker
Consider a 15- or 20-year fixed-rate mortgage instead of a 30-year, if you can afford the monthly payments - they may not be as high as you think. -- Suze Orman
The most important loan to pay is your student loan. It's more important than your mortgage, car and credit card payments. You cannot discharge student loan debt in the majority of cases. -- Suze Orman
So if the euro, if Euroland is to become a reserve center, if the euro is to become a reserve currency, Euroland will have to have a deficit in its overall balance of payments. -- Robert C. Solomon
My father was unemployed and I was the eldest of seven children. We were very poor. And when you ask how did we support ourselves, the only funding that we had was unemployment payments. -- John Hume
I've met graduating college kids facing loan payments and a bad economy, and they are worried that they won't be able to get a job. This is not the way America needs to be. -- Mitt Romney
The danger I faced was not accepted as reasonable grounds for deferring my tax payments, as authorities, who despite being told all of this, still chose to pursue action against me, as opposed to finding an alternative solution. -- Lauryn Hill
What our Republican friends are doing, if we look at what they do and not what they say, they have decided that the most important thing in this country is to increase payments for interest on the national debt. -- Tom Allen
Bad debt is debt that makes you poorer. I count the mortgage on my home as bad debt, because I'm the one paying on it. Other forms of bad debt are car payments, credit card balances, or other consumer loans. -- Robert Kiyosaki
Millions of Americans were duped by the federal government and the Federal Reserve into buying homes they could not afford and failed to count the cost. When the financial crisis of 2008 hit, they could not keep up the monthly mortgage payments and defaulted. -- Mark Skousen
If I had known how hard it would be to do something new, particularly in the payments industry, I would never have started PayPal. That's why nobody with long experience in banking had done it. You needed to be naive enough to think that new things could be done. -- Peter Thiel
One state retiree, 49 years old, paid, over the course of his entire career, a total of $124,000 towards his retirement pension and health benefits. What will we pay him? $3.3 million in pension payments over his life and nearly $500,000 for health care benefits - a total of $3.8m on a $120,000 investment. -- Chris Christie
Lordy, lordy, lordy do I love money. It is a character flaw, no doubt, one that springs from a panicked childhood in which I always felt as if our family was only a couple missed child support payments from being tossed onto the pitiless streets of our suburban New Jersey town. -- Michael Ian Black
Without in any way minimising the economic and psychological blow that people experience when they lose their jobs, the unemployed in affluent countries still have a safety net, in the form of social security payments, and usually free healthcare and free education for their children. They also have sanitation and safe drinking water. -- Peter Singer
The Holocaust survivor who knows Auschwitz through the experience of suffering observes it all from the perspective assigned to him. He keeps silent or gives interviews to the Spielberg Foundation, he accepts the compensation payments promised him after a fifty-year delay, or, if he is prominent, he makes a speech in the Swedish Academy. -- Imre Kertesz
If our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.' -- Mitch Daniels
State constitutions typically provide that the state first has to service its debt, then make it pension payments, and then pay for services. What we don't know is whether that order will be enforced. And ultimately, the busted state is going to be looking to the federal government for a bailout. Think Greece, but on a much bigger scale. -- Eugene Fama
But if our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.' -- Mitch Daniels
Credit card companies are jacking up interest rates, lowering credit limits, and closing accounts - and people who have made timely payments are not exempt. So even if you pay off your balance - and that's tough when interest rates are insanely high - there's a good chance your credit limit will be slashed, and that will hurt your FICO score. -- Suze Orman
I just want real creative freedom without worrying about, you know, car payments. -- Sean Penn
I learned that monthly payments are the cornerstone of everything in the automobile business. -- Lee Iacocca
When you're nearing 35, going, 'Hey Dad, I can't make these payments,' just isn't cool. -- Eleanor Mondale
I own the whole world, and folks haven't been keeping up too well on the payments. -- Orson Scott Card
It's hard to maintain both smack and crack habbits and remember to keep up mobile-phone payments. -- Irvine Welsh
In love and friendship, small, steady payments on a gold basis are better than immense promissory notes. -- Henry Van Dyke
More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems: back taxes, back rent, back auto payments. -- Robert Orben
Adults are locked into car payments and divorces and work. They haven't got time to think fresh. -- Gary Paulsen
The U.K. government sets a cap on how much can be spent on discretionary housing payments. -- Nicola Sturgeon
The payments which have been made into the Treasury show the very productive state of the public revenue. -- James Monroe
Our idea with starting Stripe was to build better payments technology for people building things on the web. -- John Collison
Success is one thing you can't pay for. You buy it on the installment plan and make payments everyday. -- Zig Ziglar
Late payments also hurt your FICO score. And never, ever take out a cash advance on your credit card. -- Suze Orman
In love there are no penalties and no payments, and what is given is indistinguishable from what is received. -- Eleanor Farjeon
Anything past 90 days constitutes 'severe,' but all late payments stay on your report for seven years if reported. -- Jean Chatzky
Federal laws against kickbacks bar pharmaceutical companies from directly giving money to patients for co-payments on the drugs they make. -- Alex Berenson
Older couples bring obligations such as support payments and debt as well as decades of financial experience to a marriage. -- Jean Chatzky
Drug company payments to doctors are a small part of a much larger strategy by Big Pharma to clean our pockets. -- Robert Reich
I never went after character payments. I'm pretty much terrible at naming characters, so I usually name them after people I know. -- Billy Lawrence
People are studying whether there's a cause of action that competitors, for example, would have if they're harmed by these foreign government payments. -- Norman L. Eisen
Payfirma has revolutionized the payment process, consolidating mobile, e-commerce and in-store payments under a single solution, much like HootSuite did for social media. -- Ryan Holmes
For-profit does not belong in a taxpayer-funded health system. For-profit means cutting medical services to patients, and payments to providers, to preserve profits. -- Mimi Kennedy
Most large companies structure their affairs so that they minimize their tax payments. As long as you do it within the law, it's OK. -- Chuck Feeney
Unless the trade deficit shrinks, the combination of the trade deficit and the interest and dividend payments to foreigners will grow ever more rapidly. -- Martin Feldstein
Garnishments tend to happen when people hide from their debts and stop making even minimum payments. Eventually, creditors sell the debt to a collection agency. -- Jean Chatzky
If I had high-ticker 10 percent financing, which would probably be the market rate, I would have to dump stuff. The interest payments would be killing me. -- Barry Sternlicht
A new report shows that medicare and Medicaid made more than $50 Billion in bad payments during fiscal year 2011. Under Obamacare, that'll become known as 'Tuesday.' -- Fred Thompson
When I started the business, only banks operated at airports, only banks issued travellers' cheques, only banks issued international payments, only banks serviced their own branch networks. -- Lloyd Dorfman
The black family unit that had survived 150 years of slavery was decimated in less than 30 years by welfare payments that stopped if the family structure remained intact. -- Larry Burkett
The United States as usual has a sizable deficit in the current account of its balance of payments, trade account and other current accounts, current account items. -- Robert C. Solomon
The short-term international capital market is shrunken and erratic, and cannot be relied upon to cushion the effects of tendencies to disequilibrium in the balance of payments. -- Gunnar Myrdal
There are no new cash payments or obligations here. This is an accounting reflection of the deal they announced on Monday. It`s all by the books. -- Marc Cohn
Can't make your payments? No problem. The interest charges keep on coming. In fact, banks prefer it that way. More money for them. The government guarantees it. -- Jonathan Raymond
The question is not really about a shift to the economic cone where officers are writing about the balance of payments and the need for economic stabilization. -- Lawrence Eagleburger
If only 50 or more people were doing for the country what I have been doing, there would not be a pay freeze or a balance of payments problem. -- Robert Maxwell
If you look at payments to labor as a proportion of national income or gross domestic product, you find profits going way up, investment and savings going up. -- Michael Hudson
Web banking lets you monitor your spending, tweak your budget, schedule payments, and more, particularly if you marry your online bank with the personal-finance management tools available online. -- Jean Chatzky
Screw reality. It don't feed my dog. It don't make my Porsche payments. It don't get me laid. Bullshit does that"and I like it that way. (Leo) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax; government transfer payments have become less progressive. -- Paul Ryan
When you're setting up a budget, a general rule is to start with your fixed expenses - your housing and insurance payments, and car payment, if you own one. -- Jean Chatzky
ACID Kreationz was founded in 2008. I formed this business with the purpose of paying my university tuition because my teaching salary would not be able to cover school payments. -- St. Lucia
Fraudulent and improper payments have long bedeviled Medicare, a $466 billion program. In particular, payments for durable medical equipment, like power wheelchairs and diabetic test kits, are ripe for fraud. -- Charles Duhigg
And I want to work with this Congress, to make sure Americans already burdened with student loans can reduce their monthly payments, so that student debt doesn't derail anyone's dreams. -- Barack Obama
Sacrifice today for tomorrows betterment, you are willing to pay those payments with pain, because pain is just a message when you are fixing something that's insufficient in your life. -- Greg Plitt
There is no better way to quickly buoy hard-pressed homeowners than helping them take advantage of the currently record low fixed mortgage rates and significantly reduce their monthly mortgage payments. -- Mark Zandi
Do I want to see people take their Social Security payments and put them into private accounts, open up an eTrade account and go into the stock market? Absolutely not. -- Sean Duffy
As far as income tax payments go, sources vary in their accounts, but a range of studies find that immigrants pay between $90 billion and $140 billion in Federal, State, and local taxes. -- Luis Gutierrez
When public spending in the form of transfer payments makes various services and benefits free of charge, work is discouraged. Yet it is precisely Social Security that legislators fear to cut. -- Edmund Phelps
It is better that you live in a one-room garret with a leaky roof, than live in a large house, the mortgage payments of which are causing your colon to turn cancerous! -- Stuart Wilde
Germany is not a fair country. Millions of people believe that things aren't fair in this country. Company profits and bonus payments have increased at the same rate as precarious employment situations. -- Martin Schulz
The balance-of-payments theory forgets that the volume of foreign trade is completely dependent upon prices; that neither exportation nor importation can occur if there are no differences in prices to make trade profitable. -- Ludwig von Mises
A lot of people don't see the obstacles, struggles, and challenges that come as payments for success, that's why they tend to see successful people as individuals who are very lucky in life. -- Edmond Mbiaka
A credit default swap was confusing mainly because it wasn't really a swap at all. It was an insurance policy, typically on a corporate bond, with semiannual premium payments and a fixed term. -- Michael Lewis
The choice made by families not to immunize their children is not supported by public policy or medical research nor should such action be supported by taxpayers in the form of child care payments. -- Tony Abbott
Homeowners who refinanced their mortgages took out cash and reduced their monthly payments at the same time. Much of the cash obtained by refinancing was spent on consumer durables, home improvements and the like. -- Martin Feldstein
My father was unemployed and I was the eldest of seven children. We were very poor. And when you ask how did we support ourselves, the only funding that we had was unemployment payments -- John Hume
In FY 2006, interest payments alone on the national debt cost us $406 billion. . . . What a waste. . . . That $406 billion is pathetically squandered on interest, just because we lacked the discipline to pay our bills when due. -- Bill Press
Women taking care of children . . . it makes sense to pay them for that work . . . they should be paid for it, but that requires tax payments. And the same is true about protection of the environment. -- Noam Chomsky
Nineteen percent of doctors say that they'd be able to give their patients a lethal injection. But they also went on to say that the patient would have to be really, really behind on payments. -- Jay Leno
The two largest oil-producing countries in Latin America, Mexico and Venezuela, sold petroleum to Nicaragua at concessional rates for several years beginning in 1980. The program was curtailed because Nicaragua could not make even reduced payments. -- Stephen Kinzer

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