Quotes About Income

People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income.

Well, the good old days with most of us was when we didn't earn enough to pay an income tax.

The average income of the modern teenager is about 2 a.m.

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

As for Africa, its per capita income grew relatively slowly even in the 1960s and t he 1970s (1-2% a year). But since the 1980s, the region has seen a fall in living standards. This record is a damning indictment of the neoliberal orthodoxy, because most of the African economies have been practically run by the IMF and the World Bank over the past quarter of a century.

During 2001-2005, Mexico's growth performance has been miserable, with an annual growth rate of per capita income at 0.3% (or a paltry 1.7% increase in total over five years). By contrast, during the 'bad old days' of ISI (1955-82), Mexico's per capita income had grown much faster during the NAFTA period-at an average of 3.1% per year.

The inability to protect and promote their infant industries, whether due to direct colonial rule or to unequal treaties, was a huge contributing factor to the economic retrogression in Asia and Latin America during this period, when they saw negative per capita income growths (at the rates of -0.1 and -0.04 per cent per year, respectively).

If you ignore the part-time or self-published component of the survey, and look only at full-time, traditionally published authors, incomes look a little better Ã¢â'¬â€œ though at $20,300 annually, you are going to need a trust fund, a rich partner or a sideline in computer fraud to make ends meet. The same basic picture applies in the UK and elsewhere.

Instead of going back to teaching, she began to do housework because it paid more.

could expect to receive $1.50 for a ten-hour day. By 1927 they were earning $4.00 for 8 hours.

The Republicans believe in the minimum wage -- the more the minimum, the better.

I got a lovely check today from being a writer that I earned by sitting at home. That's rewarding.

I have to work really hard, eight shows a week, to get a nice check as an actor. But when I write a play, and it's a - knock wood - hit, the checks come in for many years.

I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.

Only about thirty poker players I can think of make serious money year in and year out playing poker. The rest make a killing one year, lose the next, or lose all the time and lie about it.

What's the rent on a studio here?" Duncan asked. "Seventeen hundred a month." Duncan whistled. "That's about as much as my mortgage." "This building is reserved for low-income individuals earning seventy grand a year or less." Eve was stunned. "That's poverty wage in Santa Monica?" "And all of Los Angeles County," Gus said.

This building is reserved for low-income individuals earning seventy grand a year or less." Eve was stunned. "That's poverty wage in Santa Monica?" "And all of Los Angeles County," Gus said. Duncan looked at Eve. "That's insane. Give me one good reason why anybody lives in Southern California?" "In-N-Out Burger.

I made more money out of writing those four songs for Ozzy than I made out of fifteen years of Motörhead – ludicrous, isn't it!

Self-publishing is a volume business. The more quality (key word!) work you put out there, the better your chances of an increasing income stream. How good are the chances? Better than if you put all your hopes on one or two books. Don't fall into that trap.

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. —ABRAHAM LINCOLN1

As part of the process of heroification, textbook authors treat America itself as a hero, indeed as the hero of their books, so they remove its warts. Even to report the facts of income and wealth distribution might seem critical of America the hero, for it is difficult to come up with a theory of social justice that can explain why 1 percent of the population controls almost 40 percent of the wealth.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.