#income

Well, we lost a lot of our independence already. We are dependent on China for credit. We are dependent on Middle Eastern countries for energy supplies. And many Americans are dependent on the government for their income, health care, education of their children, food stamps. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#care #children #china #countries #credit

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

#american businesses #any #businesses #country #federal

It's nice to be in a situation where the two books that I write for a sort of regular monthly income are also works that I enjoy immensely, rather than them being some kind of bread and butter, do it because you have to do it. ↗

— Garth Ennis

#because #being #books #bread #butter

The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice. ↗

— William Booth

#career #income #maximum #newest #only

You could make a case that women addicted men to their sexuality and then withdrew their sexuality until we provided them with a source of income. ↗

— Warren Farrell

#case #could #income #make #men

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

#additional #adjustment #after #ask #asking

I think we ought to ban earmarks. I think we ought to give citizens the opportunity to designate up to 10 percent of their federal income tax toward debt reduction. If we did that, we would reduce our debt by $95 billion a year. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#billion #citizens #debt #designate #did

Did you know that they introduced the 15 percent flat tax on individual and corporate income in Iraq? Something that some politicians very much wanted to push in the United States without success but in Iraq they do it. ↗

— Juan Cole

#did #flat #flat tax #income #individual

My wife's income allowed me to do what I really loved. I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too. ↗

— Warren Farrell

#i #income #liberation #loved #me

If Warren Buffett made his money from ordinary income rather than capital gains, his tax rate would be a lot higher than his secretary's. In fact a very small percentage of people in this country pay a big chunk of the taxes. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#capital #capital gains #chunk #country #fact