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"Any discuss about taxes ends up being, are you raising them or lowering them, as the opposed to the question I ask - are we raising them for high income individuals that can afford it, and lowering them for lower income people who really need help. Those old categories don't work, and they're preventing us from solving them problems."
"Sometimes I wonder how much of these debates have to do with the desire, the legitimate desire, for that history to be recognized. Because there is a psychic power to the recognition that is not satisfied with a universal program, it's not satisfied by the Affordable Care Act, or an expansion of Pell grants, or an expansion of the earned-income tax credit."
"The dilemma of modern society: the conflict between the need for capital formation at a high rate and the popular condemnation of interest and dividends as "unearned income" and "capitalist," if not as sinful and wicked."
"Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy."
"Money not spent on a luxury one considered even briefly is the equivalent of windfall income and should be spent accordingly."
"To have a full stomach and fixed income are no small things ."
"Taxes on consumption, like those on capital or income, to be just, must be uniform."
"There are skeptics who do not come to their view because they have a source of income from carbon polluters."
"The plant goes down. The industry is weaker. The price of the commodity has lagged. Any of those things can push people into unemployment or lower income categories, and that hurts."
"The first step to boosting your income is to identify where your passion lives and to be true to it."
"Every group spends more when its income grows."
"There's no indication that middle-income families feel resentful about the bigger mansions and yachts. But the near-rich, whose social circles intersect those of the rich, are subtly influenced by them."
"No one's selling records anymore, so there's no income you're being robbed of. I think that you should be in alignment with the world. The world is about sharing now, so as long as it's out there, it should be there. I think it's fine."
"This is a question too difficult for a mathematician. It should be asked of a philosopher"(when asked about completing his income tax form)"
"I think that Governor Romney operates on the capital gains tax, his investments, what he lives off of instead of doing it off of his income."
"We're paying maybe 25 percent of the income tax, but the payroll tax is over a third of the receipts of the federal government. And they don't take that from me on capital gains. They don't take that from me on dividends."
"I think the biggest thing we need is to unclog the credit markets, and we may need another stimulus - if we do, it's - it should go to the lower and middle-income people."
"You could use artificial intelligence to build a system around postcodes and income, which could lead to racial profiling."
"You never find people laboring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful income."
"Indeed, I thought, slipping the silver into my purse, it is remarkable, remembering the bitterness of those days, what a change of temper a fixed income will bring about."
