Quotes About Income

The equality Liberalism creates is equality before the Law; it has never sought any other. From the liberal point of view, therefore, criticism which condemns this equality as inadequate — maintaining that true equality is full equality of income through equal distribution of commodities — is unjustified.

However, in talking about equality and asking vehemently for its realization, nobody advocates a curtailment of his own present income. The term equality as employed in contemporary political language always means upward leveling of one's income, never downward leveling. It means getting more, not sharing one's own affluence with people who have less.

It was the fact that we were selling dead animals. You see, farmers are only supposed to sell live animals to processors and marketers who are supposed to make all the money—those notorious middlemen. After all, we couldn't have all that middleman money going to farmers. No, that wouldn't be right. Farmers are supposed to be peasants, serfs, impoverished dolts, remember?

because it's my job. It's how I make my living. And I'll tell you somethin' else: It's damn hard work bein' a girl full

All right for someone earning a hundred thousand a year. For most of us even contract rates are crippling; I should know.

JIM AND IRENE Westcott were the kind of people who seem to strike that satisfactory average of income, endeavor, and respectability that is reached by the statistical reports in college alumni bulletins.

Fate is not a choice, it is a fact, deny it and await the outcome or accept it, move on and enjoy the income.

Deadbeat dads don't pay child support. They minimise their taxable income to cheat their kids.

Every land or property owner in America would be tickled to death to pay 45 per cent of his profits, if he didn't have to pay anything if he didn't make it.

Duntz asked Smith, 'Added up, how much money did you get from the Cutters?' 'Between forty and fifty dollars.

I can't control my own income, I can't control my own destiny, I can't even control my own farm if I'm a farmer. This is not going to last.

Poverty, in the end, is a state of dispossession and deprivation in which people are not only deprived of their income, but also of opportunity, empowerment and, most important, dignity.

When people gain income, they gain choice, and that is fundamental to dignity.

It's more important to grow your income than cut your expenses. It's more important to grow your spirit that cut your dreams.

Vanity does not pay the bills.

If doctors are paid the same salary as bus drivers, community would not be crazy about making their children doctors

Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.

The real solution is to improve the incomes of the poor and provide their children with decent education.

When I started my last business, I didn't receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can't handle that pressure.

Education helps you earn more. But not many schoolteachers can prove it.

A mother's ability to provide for her children is not always tied to income, but rather to education.

It is hard knowing that maybe if I was born a man and doing the exact same thing I would have more money than sense.

All the money I have, I got it legally.

The more you win, the more you get paid. I'm not trying to get paid less money. I've worked too hard to get into this tax bracket.