My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.
Year 2008 wiped out $19.2 trillion in US income... What if the money was spent on the Midwest of the United States?
Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down.
If the economy is growing fast, there is call for a distributing income from the rich to the poor to to put in place social safety nets.
I'll tell you who doesn't have any personal responsibility. Companies like General Electric and others who pay absolutely no income tax.
The first time I had disposable income, the two things I cared most about were a television and a couch.
For the true measure of agriculture is not the sophistication of its equipment the size of its income or even the statistics of its productivity but the good health of the land.
The problems of the world, from immigration to populism to income inequality to sustainability to peacekeeping, require a well-functioning supranational body.
Laws of nature don't know they are "fixed." That's a human pattern seeking description that comes out of our need to survive. It isn't an objective description of anything.
When everyone is moving towards depravity, no one seems to be moving, but if someone stops he shows up the others who are rushing on, by acting as a fixed point.
The 'anchor baby' thing needs to be fixed... Anchor babies are an unconstitutional declaration of citizenship to those born of non-Americans. It's wrong, and it's immoral.
For a nation, the choices that determine whether income doubles in one generation or two dwarf all other economic policy concerns.
We've become a debtor nation. I don't mean just on fixed-loan terms, but we own increasingly less abroad than is owned from abroad here.
I became fascinated by marionettes, which I first saw in Venice. They were so haunted and so alive. You walked by them, and you could feel their presence, with their beady eyes just fixed on you.
Tiny-perhaps." Rovender kept his eyes fixed on the rings. "Insignificant-never, Eva Nine. No living thing is insignificant.
The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.
RITE, n. A religious or semi-religious ceremony fixed by law, precept or custom, with the essential oil of sincerity carefully squeezed out of it.
A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve.
Montesquieu well knew, and justly admired, the happy constitution of this country [Great Britain], where fixed and known laws equally restrain monarchy from tyranny and liberty from licentiousness.
There is nothing wrong with wanting pay for work, or seeking to maximize one's income, as long as one does not use means that are destructive.
Except for the usual house chores, doing income tax, etc., I am free to write whenever I want.
Online journalism has rendered us all news wire hacks - get it posted fast, forget about context or nuance or interpretation, and errors will be fixed on the fly.
Ford's federal income tax rate was just 2.3 percent in 2009 even though it made $3 billion in profits.
The only things stopping me today are: genetics, lack of will, income, brain chemistry and external events.
We live in a world where economic positions - income and wealth - are very unevenly distributed, and this leads to the widespread persistence of poverty.
I solemnly swear that I will bear true and faithful allegiance to the Queen when she pays her income tax.
Trump's claims that he's making taxes more democratic for the people, but it actually is a vast sucking of income and wealth upward.
The Narendra Modi government has worked for the betterment of the agricultural sector as a whole and towards the goal of doubling the farmer's income.
I think it is better when people with their own businesses and means of income join politics as there is some degree of honesty and integrity.
It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them.
Few of us ever test our powers of deduction, except when filling out an income tax form
In talking about equality and asking vehemently for its realization, nobody advocates a curtailment of his own present income.
A devotee should be fixed in the conclusion that, the spiritual master cannot be subject to criticism and should never be considered equal to a common man.
I can assure you that my wife and I - every penny of income we've ever had, our taxes were paid in West Virginia.
You boast of spending a tenth part of your income in charity; may be you should spend the nine tenths so, and done with it.
And so in my mind's eye these coastal forms merge and blend in a shifting, kaleidoscopic pattern in which there is no finality, no ultimate and fixed reality - earth becoming fluid as the sea itself.
The expenses of complying with Washington's torrent of mandates and regulatory overreach are costing American workers jobs and income growth.
Marriage is the clue to human life, but there is no marriage apart from the wheeling sun and the nodding earth, from the strayingof the planets and the magnificence of the fixed stars.
Our ability to adapt and therefore to accept everything is one of our greatest dangers. Creatures that are completely flexible, changeable, can have no fixed morality.
I am, beneath everything else, a fan. I was fixed in this mode as a young boy and am awed by people who take the risks of performance.
When I see the crumbling roads and bridges, or the dilapidated airports, or the factories moving overseas to Mexico, or to other countries, I know these problems can all be fixed, but not by Hillary Clinton - only by me.
When the code of laws is once fixed, it should be observed in the literal sense, and nothing more is left to the judge than to determine whether an action is or is not conformable to the written law.
With a fixed mindset, you believe you are who you are and you cannot change. This creates problems when you're challenged because anything that appears to be more than you can handle is bound to make you feel hopeless and overwhelmed.
The amount of time that a young girl spends wearing pink will be inversely proportional to her future income.
I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax.
Income inequality and wage stagnation finally took their place among the principal moral issues of our time.
Religion to be true must satisfy what may be termed humanitarian economics, that is, where the income and the expenditure balance each other.
People's beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities. Ability is not a fixed property; there is huge variablitiy in how you perform.
Avoid banquets which are given by strangers an ignorant persons. But if there is ever occasion to join them, let your attention be carefully fixed, that you slip not into the manner of the vulgar (the uninstructed).
Growing up in a lower-income family, you don't have the resources to make ends meet and you have to find creative ways to get by.
The recollected go forth to lives of renunciation. They take no pleasure in a fixed abode. Like wild swans abandoning a pool, they leave one resting place after another.
It means that the silver coins of the United States at whatever ratio is fixed, and I want the present ratio that we have now, 16 to 1, maintained precisely as it is.
We have undocumented immigrants in America who are paying more federal income tax than a billionaire. I find that just astonishing.
Good customers are an asset which, when wellmanaged and served, will return a handsome lifetime income stream for the company.
The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitants of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics.
I want to give people a basic income, so that if you're working hard, doing the best you can, that you can not just survive, but you can have a decent life.
The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction, cash flow is reality.
We launched DirecTV Now. Our 5G evolution plans and improved spectrum position are paving the way for the next generation of super-fast mobile and fixed networks.
I feel awful for women who are trying to raise kids on their own, with zero income and no fathers present - that's single motherhood.
Desire is poison at lunch and wormwood at dinner; your bed is a stone, friendship is hateful and your fancy is always fixed on one thing.
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