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Next Page »Robert Reich: Poverty-Level Wages
on Sunday, April 11, 2021Robert Reich Money Quote saying those working full time jobs at minimum wage are costing the government in subsidies for those same families, so employers should contribute or pay more to workers. Robert Reich said:
“Poverty-level wages cost U.S. taxpayers $152.8 billion a year in public support for working families. So it’s only logical to raise taxes on big companies that give their workers poverty-level wages, to pay for this subsidy” — Robert Reich
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Poverty-level wages cost U.S. taxpayers $152.8 billion a year in public support for working families. So it's only logical to raise taxes on big companies that give their workers poverty-level wages, to pay for this subsidy.
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) February 28, 2021
Romans 6:23: Wages of Sin Death
on Sunday, April 4, 2021Romans 6:23 Bible Money Quote saying Christian belief that Jesus paid for humanity’s sins with his life – celebrated with the Easter Holiday. Romans 6:23 said:
“For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord” — Romans 6:23
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Your. Debt. Is paid.
Now go live your life in a way that impressed Jesus and our Lord, that their sacrifices were not made in vain.
— John Hope Bryant (@johnhopebryant) April 4, 2021
Toni Morrison: Earnings Squander
on Tuesday, August 6, 2019Toni Morrison Money Quote saying in the New Yorker of 2017 that money can be wasted and it can be used for real things where it is needed and can bring fulfillment to us. Toni Morrison said:
“Part of my pride in working for Her was earning money I could squander: on movies, candy, paddleballs, jacks, ice-cream cones. But a larger part of my pride was based on the fact that I gave half my wages to my mother, which meant that some of my earnings were used for real things — an insurance-policy payment or what was owed to the milkman or the iceman” — Toni Morrison
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Abraham Lincoln: Reasonable Wage
on Tuesday, January 1, 2019Abraham Lincoln Money Quote saying in text from the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863 that all slaves were to be free and were encouraged to work for pay. Abraham Lincoln said:
“I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defence; and I recommend to them that, in all cases when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages” — Abraham Lincoln
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Leon Trotsky: Understand Economic Process
on Friday, November 9, 2018Leon Trotsky Money Quote saying words and labels for economic processes are meaningless and not understood by most – and certainly not within their power to change or direct. Leon Trotsky said:
“Such categories as ‘commodity’, ‘money’, ‘wages’, ‘capital’, ‘profit’, ‘tax’, and the like are only semi-mystical reflections in men’s heads of the various aspects of a process of economy which they do not understand and which is not under their control” — Leon Trotsky
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Barack Obama: Top of Economic Pyramid
on Monday, September 10, 2018Barack Obama Money Quote saying the economic recovery has skewed the wealth even further toward the wealthy and those already at the top. Barack Obama said:
“As wages slowed and inequality accelerated, those at the top of the economic pyramid have been able to influence government to skew things even more in their direction” — Barack Obama
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Adam Smith: High Wages, High Profits
on Tuesday, January 2, 2018Adam Smith Money Quote saying business owners fully blame wages for increasing the cost of goods, but rarely believe profits have any deleterious effect. Adam Smith said:
“Our merchants and masters complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price and lessening the sale of goods. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits” — Adam Smith
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Toni Fan: Data Economy Income
on Thursday, September 7, 2017Toni Fan Money Quote saying our work online will be paid enough to fully replace what we do offline to earn a living. Toni Fan said:
“In the next stage of the data economy, online income from digital labor will replace wages earned offline, allowing us to make a living off the data we share” — Toni Fan
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