The left is being funded primarily by the drug traffickers who provide this tax money and that's why the guerrillas in Colombia, unlike the guerrillas anywhere else in Latin America, have been able to survive for 40 years because they have a hard, solid source of income.
Nearly all educational expenditure should be considered a capital outlay, whether it provides a future return in the form of enhanced taxable income or in terms of an enhanced quality of life.
65% of people say that cheating on your income tax is worse than cheating on your spouse. The other 35% were women.
The more the state gives to its citizens, the less they have to earn. That is the basic concept of the welfare state - you receive almost everything you need without having to earn any of it. About half of Americans now pay no federal income tax - but they receive all government benefits just as if they had paid for, i. e. , earned them.
Practically all government attempts to redistribute wealth and income tend to smother productive incentives and lead toward general impoverishment.
If people want capital gains taxed more like the highest rate on income, that's a good discussion. Maybe that's the way to help close the deficit.
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.
A safety net for the poor indeed requires some level of income redistribution.
The solution for rising up kids in the income distributionlies is in creating better childhood environments for kids growing up, especially in low income families. And so what means such things like schools, the quality of neighborhoods. If you think about what's gone on in Baltimore, it's a place of tremendous concentrated poverty. People aren't really seeing a path forward and I think revitalizing places like that can have a huge impact, even in the face of globalization and changes in technology.
I love the Roth IRA. Tax-free income in retirement is a truly great deal.
There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
If you look at payments to labor as a proportion of national income or gross domestic product, you find profits going way up, investment and savings going up.
Higher projected corporate and personal income tax receipts and lower public debt charges.
When fresh sorrows have caused us to take some steps in the right way, we may not complain. We have invested in a life annuity, but the income remains.
I am struck again by the fact that as soon as a working man gets an official post in the Trade Union or goes into Labour politics, he becomes middle-class whether he will or no. ie. by fighting against the bourgeoisie he becomes a bourgeois. The fact is that you cannot help living in the manner appropriate and developing the ideology appropriate to your income.
The English Established Church. . . will more readily pardon an attack on 38 of its 39 articles than on 139 of its income.
I don't consider myself a fashion person, I consider myself a shopping person. As a person who has girlie interests and a little bit of disposable income.
Those things that you just do, if you put that together in a DVD program, let's say, for $97, to teach people how to do that. Well, if you sold 100 of those a month, that's $9,700 of income a month just teaching what you already do and know to people who want to learn how to do the same.
Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society.
In 2013 Citigroup had profits of $6. 4 billion in the United States. They paid no federal income tax and, in fact, received a rebate from the IRS of $260 million. That same year J. P. Morgan had $17. 2 billion in profits in the U. S. They also paid no federal income tax. Do you think it's time for tax reform?