Quotes About Income

People who buy equity ETF shares in taxable accounts, such as a joint account or trust account, will find their tax bill may be slightly lower at the end of the year than if they had purchased the same amount in a comparable open-end index fund.

Growth is a substitute for equality of income. So long as there is growth there is hope, and that makes large income differentials tolerable.'350

Growth is a substitute for equality of income. So long as there is growth there is hope, and that makes large income differentials tolerable.

The evidence suggests that when people get a windfall—and this seems to be the way people think about their tax refund, despite it being expected—they tend to save a larger proportion from it than they do from regular income, especially if the windfall is sizable.

The more television people watch, the more they overestimate the affluence of other people. And the lower they rate their own relative income. The result is that they are less happy.

It is actually a rather sorry tale. In the late nineteenth century most English economists thought that economics was about happiness. They thought of a persons happiness as in principle measurable, like temperature, and they thought we could compare one persons happiness with anothers. They also assumed that extra income brought less and less extra happiness as a person got richer.

The postdoc turns into an adjunct position. She makes almost nothing, but life requires little. Her budget is blessedly free of those two core expenses, entertainment and status.

passed to make anything a crime. Do you realize, Mr. Scott, that 'a heavy progressive, or graduated, income tax' is one of the cardinal points of the Communist Manifesto? Sure. Point two, between 'Abolition of property in land' and 'Abolition of all right of inheritance.' But, since we're stuck with it, Mr. Lorimer, what was the beef against you?

I lit a cigarette and said to Feldspen, "That sounds to me like the biggest extortion this side of the Federal Income Tax. Are you sure the guy was serious?

When people can afford necessities in life, an increase in income dones not result in a significantly happier life.

Never make financial decisions based on what you assume you'll be earning in the future.

My dad has to go to Washington to work, or we wouldn't have enough money . . .

In the meantime, I'll get a job. I'll pay my own way." "A job?" "Mmm, yeah. It's that thing people do to make money.

And remember, the value of a rental property increases based on its operations and cash flow.

In order to become wealthy you have to stop working just to pay your expenses

Even when times were good, I realized that my earning power as a golf professional depended on too many ifs and putts.

If you want to pay off your debts, it pays to increase your earning power.

We live in a country where a small number of people have incredible wealth and power. America has more income and wealth inequality than any other major country.

You have to be very rich to afford Labour, with 66 tax rises since they came in power.

A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.

They note that the coherent arbitrariness of salaries is tacitly recognized in an old one-liner: A wealthy man is one who earns $100 more than his wife's sister's husband.

I am not a pig farmer. The pigs had a great time, but I didn't make any money.

Nothing contributes so much to the prosperity and happiness of a country as high profits.

There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down.