It's true that redistributing income to the needy is politically easier in a growing economy than in a stagnant one.
No nation in history has ever survived a tax burden that reached a third of its national income.
There's no permanent, fixed class consciousness. You can't work out immediately what people think and what politics they have simply by looking at their socio-economic position.
Middle-income wage earners have essentially had no pay increases since 2000.
The nation's first experiment with the income tax was tried at this time; another violation of the Constitution.
Cities have a psychogeographical relief, with constant currents, fixed points and vortexes which strongly discourage entry into or exit from certain zones
Las Vegas is a resort whose two chief sources of income are seven and eleven.
The ecclesiastical system of Rome, and particularly its leaders, for a thousand years and more thought that the earth is fixed and that everything else revolves about it.
Paying debt service to banks leaves less income to buy goods and services.
Now, DVD can represent more income than the box office-and typically does.
Human trafficking is a globally assisted pandemic that generates billions of dollars of income a year.
The permanence of all books is fixed by no effort friendly or hostile, but by their own specific gravity, or the intrinsic importance of their contents to the constant mind of man.
In this country, we have partnerships, we have S corps, we have LLCs, we have a series of entities that do not pay corporate income tax.
I have been mislabeled as a big advocate of low-income home ownership over rental.
I love the Roth IRA. Tax-free income in retirement is a truly great deal.
Every American should have above average income, and my Administration is going to see they get it.
Now DVD can represent more income than the box office - and typically does.
I think the stress on income inequality is something that every American should take seriously.
I was raised by a single mother. We were definitely below the median income of our area.
While this is good and it stores up knowledge and power, at the same time there's a problem with it because it means that a person becomes more fixed.
We don't have that many tournaments so sponsorship from logos is another way of helping boost your income.
Unequal distribution of income is an excessively uneconomic method of getting the necessary saving done.
If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.
Osteoarthritis is a tough thing, brother. If my knee was broke, I would have had it fixed. But my situation is totally different. It's painful as hell is all I can say.
Vision is a destination - a fixed point to which we focus all effort. Strategy is a route - an adaptable path to get us where we want to go.
Basic income is not a utopia, it's a practical business plan for the next step of the human journey.
When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income.
Poststructuralism. . . . is a form of literary criticism that uses elaborate wordplay to prove its central premise, that all language is internally contradictory and has no fixed meaning.
In an unmolested market economy - one where all dealings are consensual - the 'allocation' of wealth and income is the result of transactions.
In F-111, I question the collusion between the Vietnam War, income taxes, consumerism, and advertising.
I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes.
I want to make a positive point of Ikea. It makes income inequality a minor distraction.
A universal basic income doesn't give people dignity or protect them from boredom and vice.
If there is anyone dependent on your income - parents, children, relatives - you need life insurance.
If there is any law governing the distribution of income between classes, it still remains to be discovered.
The middle income families in America have been crushed over the last four years.
People can also change the timing of when they earn and receive their income in response to government policies.
As a low-income worker, my take-home pay, at best, was about $200 a week.
People can change the volume, the location and the composition of their income, and they can do so in response to changes in government policies.
Once you taste the second income in the household and it changes your lifestyle, you get used to it.
Does inequality in the distribution of income increase or decrease in the course of a country's economic growth?
Fairness dictates that the highest income people should pay the greatest share of taxes, and they do.
There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain and open to interpretation.
Whether it's from the books or the films, there are some people that will have a very fixed idea in their head. You're not going to match that. At a certain point, you have to accept that.
When Christ possesses the will He keeps it fixed. The trouble comes when we take matters out of His hand and try to handle them ourselves.
A mother's ability to provide for her children is not always tied to income, but rather to education.
An income means life to wretched mortals, but it is a terrible fate to die among the waves.
To try and nick a few quid off the income tax... Why? I am not into that. I don't need that.
A rich, multi-dimensional tour of Naples, most brilliant, battered, and bewildering of cities, here fixed to the page with wit and élan. Splendid.
When people are able to live at home, they have more disposable income. That part is good for the economy.
There's nothing wrong with having a 9-to-5 job, but figure out a way to have another stream of income.
Employers' national income is a particular disincentive to employ because it is an expense without benefit.
As anyone who has started a company knows, it's pretty common not to see any income for months.
There is some talk of lowering (the income tax), and they will have to. People are not making enough to pay it.
Regret has a purpose. It's like the oil light on the dashboard of your life, telling you something needs to be fixed. So fix it. And feel better.
We look upon this shaken earth, and we declare our firm and fixed purpose - the building of a peace with justice in a world where moral law prevails.
I just filled out my income tax forms. Who says you can't get killed by a blank?
So I do have to work, you know, and I find as many movies and TV shows that I can, because otherwise I wouldn't have an income.
For an individual, playback singing is not enough to sustain a career, and it is not really a main source of income.
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