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Edmund Wilson

"There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income."

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"Higher income taxes are a razor guillotine poised to descend on the bare neck of prosperity."

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"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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Asa Don Brown

"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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Asa Don Brown

"There's just one thing I can't figure out. My income tax!"

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Asa Don Brown

"Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?"

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Asa Don Brown

"Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income."

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Asa Don Brown

"There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail."

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Asa Don Brown

"Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind."

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Asa Don Brown

"My total year's income from working as hard as I possibly could from writing went from like $30 one year to about $70 the next year. And it made me realize that maybe you couldn't really pay the rent that way."

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Asa Don Brown

"I'm at a point where I don't have to wait for the income from the record to survive, so I'm in a comfortable zone, but I'll make rap records as long as I feel I have something to rap about."

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