“The high income tax come pretty near passing in the Senate. Only lacked about six votes. So it won't be long now. Well, there is millions and millions that are not making it, that would be glad to give up 99 per cent if you would let 'em earn a hundred thousand or more.” IfsGivingWellsLongWould BeMillionsThousandTaxesGiving UpSixHundredVoteGladIncomePassingPassingsEmsSenateCentsIncome Tax Author:Will Rogers
“Thirty or forty proprietors, with incomes answering to between one thousand and five thousand a year, would create a much more effectual demand for the necessaries, conveniences, and luxuries of life, than a single proprietor possessing a hundred thousand a year.” YearsFiveThousandDemandHundredIncomeLuxuryThirtyFortyConveniencePossessing Book:Principles of political economy considered with a view to their practical application Source: Principles of political economy considered with a view to their practical application
“Take it from me: no matter how few or how many children you have, or how little or how much money you make, your expenses are going to exceed your income by approximately a hundred dollars a month.” ChildrenLittlesMatterFamilyMonthsHundredDollarsIncomeExpensesExceed Book:Up a Family Tree Source: Up a Family Tree
“Why is it that Serge Lange's Linear Algebra, published by no less a Verlag than Springer, ostentatiously displays the sale of a few thousand copies over a period of fifteen years, while the same title by Seymour Lipschutz in the The Schaum's Outlines will be considered a failure unless it brings in a steady annual income from the sale of a few hundred thousand copies in twenty-six languages?” YearsScienceLanguagePeriodsThousandSixHundredTwentiesMathematicsIncomeTitlesCopiesSteadyDisplayFifteenOutlinesLinearAnnualsAlgebraFifteen Years Author:Gian-Carlo Rota
“Notwithstanding what some regard as the institutionalization of compassion, the transfer society quashes genuine virtue. Redistribution of income by means of government coercion is a form of theft. Its supporters attempt to disguise its essential character by claiming that democratic procedures give it legitimacy, but this justification is specious. Theft is theft, whether it be carried out by one thief or by a hundred million thieves acting in concert. And it is impossible to found a good society on the institutionalization of theft.” GivingMeanCharacterGovernmentFormFoundActingCompassionMillionsVirtueImpossibleEssentialsHundredRegardDemocraticGenuineIncomeConcertsThievesJustificationDisguiseSupporterProceduresTheftCoercionTransfersLegitimacy Author:Robert Higgs
“Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.” YearsFunnyWealthMoneyWifeHusbandHundredDollarsProsperityIncomeFunny Money Author:H. L. Mencken