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"So tonight I propose one more step that I would rather not propose. I ask the most fortunate among us, those citizens earning over $100,000 per year, for one year, to pay an additional one percent on the income they receive."
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"Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense."
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Personal Development
"If I can generate enough income, I'd like to get a castle, a historic castle that I can restore."
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Personal Development
"But, on the other hand, the occasional and precarious dripping of coppers has by no means a genial effect."
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Personal Development
"Higher income taxes are a razor guillotine poised to descend on the bare neck of prosperity."
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Personal Development
"The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value."
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Personal Development
"There's just one thing I can't figure out. My income tax!"
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Personal Development
"There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income."
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Personal Development
"When your outgo exceeds your income, the upshot may be your downfall."
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Personal Development
"The income from sales now covers the expense of materials but I expect this to improve."
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Personal Development
"The increase in inequality in income is a longtime trend, but the pressure on middle- and low-income workers is going up rapidly. Especially if they live in an area where there are high housing and gas prices, like California."
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"The state of our state needs serious attention."
Attention
"I refer, of course, to the debts our nation has amassed for itself over decades of indulgence. It is the new Red Menace, this time consisting of ink. We can debate its origins endlessly and search for villains on ideological grounds, but the reality is pure arithmetic."
Time
"We believe that government works for the benefit of private life, and not the other way around."
Life
"Government does not create jobs, it only creates the conditions that make jobs more or less likely."
Government
"The perverse presumption that places the burden of proof on the challenger of spending must be inverted, back to the rule that applies elsewhere in life: 'Prove to me why we should.'"
Burden
"Every citizen who stops smoking, or loses a few pounds, or starts managing his chronic disease with real diligence, is caulking a crack for the benefit of us all."
Health
"Among the weeds choking out growth and good government are the hundreds of boards, commissions, and advisory committees that have sprouted over the years. They devour time, money, and energy far beyond any real contribution they make."
Government
"All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That, addressed as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity, they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy."
Faith
"So tonight I propose one more step that I would rather not propose. I ask the most fortunate among us, those citizens earning over $100,000 per year, for one year, to pay an additional one percent on the income they receive."
Income
"Sure, things could always have been done better, but I just wish people would drop their political hammers for a few weeks, as happened in 2001, and work on the problem at hand."
Work
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