"Is a fixed income not a good thing? Does not everyone love to count on a sure thing? Especially every petty-bourgeois, narrow-minded Frenchman? the 'ever needy' man?"
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"Annual income is £ 20, the cost is 19, you will feel happiness. If annual income of £ 20, the cost is £ 20.6, you will see suffering"
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"Accounting incomes were reduced by discrepancy [ but] "the net amount paid by lawyers for lawyerly discrepancy is close to zippo. In this case, the goddess of justice was blind."
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"Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down."
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"In low-income countries, the main problems you have is infectious diseases."
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"This is too difficult for a mathematician. It takes a philosopher. The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."
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"For there to be an expense, there must be income somewhere else"
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"Luxury is the income tax of vanity. But it is so pleasant."
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"Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax; government transfer payments have become less progressive."
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"The total amount of money that Wall Street handed out in bonuses last year was double the total income of ALL full-time minimum wage workers. That's obscene."
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"If you'd be wealthy, think of saving, more than of getting: The Indies have not made Spain rich, because her Outgoes equal her Incomes."
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"We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life."
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"And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hardly less, if it is less, than that exerted by the way in which it is earned."
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"It's not debt per say that overwhelms an individual corporation or country. Rather it is a continuous increase in debt in relation to income that causes trouble."
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"Pain pays the income of each precious thing."
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"A useful analogy is to see traditional societies as relying on instantaneous (or minimally delayed) and constantly replenished solar income, while modern civilization is withdrawing accumulated solar capital at rates that will exhaust it in a tiny fraction of the time that was needed to create it."
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"The death tax causes one-third of all family-owned small businesses to liquidate after the death of the owner. It is also an unfair tax because the assets have already been taxed once at their income level."
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"If income was directly proportional to technical proficiency and education, classical and jazz musicians would be some of the most affluent people in the world."
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"Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success."
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"There's just one thing I can't figure out. My income tax!"
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