As a general rule, as income rises, so debt increases, but in the very low income groups we find an extraordinarily high ratio of debt.

Goolam Ballim

There are more buyers and customers in the medium income bracket than there are in the upper income bracket.

Ben Johnson (sales)

A few years ago, you could heat a home for $500. Now it takes $1,500. Energy has become a lot less affordable for low-income families.

Mark Wolfe

Basically, [guitarist] Chris [White] and I had a good writing income, and we hadn't been gigging much recently. There wasn't any bad feeling.

Rod Argent

From a strategic perspective, it's one of the important disciplines that the firm wants to have in its fixed-income offering.

Joe Mcgrath

What's attractive about the Roth K is that it allows those in the upper-income bracket to contribute. Before they couldn't make any Roth contributions whatsoever.

David Koch

Income and sales taxes are both collected in dribs and drabs.

Bill Ahern

The city is getting no extra income. This (rate increase) is not being used for anything else.

Judy Nation

If you don't react to the farm crisis ... you've got a way bigger hole to fill than you'd have to fill by supporting the farm-income sector.

Ron Bonnett

They can go from about 69 cents a kilo to about $5 a kilo. Their income goes dramatically up.

Rafael Gonzalez

Residents in the complex cannot pay more than 30 percent of their gross income for rent. The highest amount they could pay for rent would be $320 (a month).

Dave Cooper

What good is a tax credit against income if you have no income?

Paul Pescatello

Publishing is absolutely vital for your career, it's vital for your prestige, it's vital for your income, and it's vital for your funding.

Dr. Harvey Marcovitch

I continue to think that one of the most important things we can do to make Jacksonville great is raising per-capita income.

John Peyton

Research shows that when a low-income family moves into a new home, the kids' grades go up.

Carroll Klein

This would be a tax increase on low and middle-income Americans. They are the ones who are buying the shoes and clothing and toys coming from China.

Dan Griswold

We can't afford to lose that bar. It's our only regular income.

Commander Elmo Norton

The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value.

Irving Fisher

My grandfather was a miner. To augment their income, my grandparents also operated a small grocery store out of their home during the Depression.

Barbara Russell

The third alternative is to take a chance -- estimate what your income will be, and pay that.

Laurence Foster

There are many income opportunities individuals could create.

Patrick Michaels

Foreign exchange in the first quarter had a slightly negative impact on our income statement.

Ron Wirahadiraksa

He was uncertain as to the source of the income.

Judi Rodrigues Wallis

If your expenses are higher than your income, you need to find ways to cut back - which can be painful at first.

Beth Kobliner

It definitely affects your lifestyle if you don?t have a six-figure income.

Joe Nichols

Probably just out of prison income.

Kelly Kennedy

What Harris Teeter looks for is a certain demographic, household income and education level, and Columbia really fit the demographic.

Kevin Allen

For a low-income person, it's really not affordable. That's the bottom line.

Jon Gabel

It doesn't last forever, and $600 or $700 a month is a lot to pay when someone has lost their income.

Larry Levitt

They may have had a losing season, so they double up, and double up until the end of the tournament, if they crash out, they're often in debt twice their annual income.

Keith White

Should allow investors to better gauge the impact from a potentially lumpy income stream.

Steve Milunovich

A lot of people cannot have the expense. They can't handle it. Those few pennies or those few dollars really mean a lot to people that are on fixed income.

Pamela Miller

We're not stealing anything. We're not doing anything that I feel is wrong, and if my staff needs some help, I'm gonna give it to 'em, 'cause they're on low income.

Ruth Mahl

The norm has been that as housing ages, it's occupied by lower-income people. That's not so anymore.

William Lucy

The biggest factor is income. The higher the state's per capita income, the higher the percentage that goes into the pot.

Bill Ahern

I just filled out my income tax forms. Who says you can't get killed by a blank?

Milton Berle

It's starting to affect middle-income people as well.

Paul Ginsburg

Next to taxes it's the single biggest income for the county.

Jack Sullivan

We are proposing to develop 209 units of high-quality, very affordable housing, including about 100 units of housing for formerly homeless individuals and 100 units of housing for low-income individuals.

Larry James

Household income should be thought of as the canary in the mineshaft; its decline relative to the U.S. cannot be ignored.

Mark Cullen

When farmers own 70 per cent of the company, a government decision that reduces their income is not going to go down too well.

Greg Canavan

The key is whether consumers' income will be able to keep up, and that looks encouraging so far.

Anthony Karydakis

It's becoming obvious to everybody that we're kind of at the bottom of the curve and that rental income is going to start climbing from here.

Cary Bruteig

We're saying you can work here but you can't live here? No one's going to drive 45 minutes to work at a low-income job.

Alissa Morrison

They add a lot of value to the crops that are typically sold in through the fall and actually bring in a higher income for the farmer.

Tony Ends

The Latino demographic is an audience that is growing in terms of populations and disposable income.

Robert Routh

What you continue to see is younger retirees with more disposable income that are in better health than retirees in general.

Mark Bowersox

I don't know if Minnesota has anything to lament. It's never bad to have high income. But high income does bring high taxes.

Curtis Dubay

A positive, was their cost-to-income ratio. There has definitely been some progress on costs.

Angus Geddes

With this agreement we've brought about an improvement for all families. We've achieved an improvement for families with one income and we've made it better to combine family and work.

Volker Kauder

A lot of governments would love to have an industry come in that would generate that kind of income.

Robert Crowder

Generally, people do not have much more than [$9,000, $10,000 or] $11,000 per year income.

Sally Little

For seniors on a fixed income, this rate increase is just more than they can bear.

Lori Parham

A lot of our business is the low-income to the middle-income people. If I have to pass on this cost to those people, what are they going to do?

Leo Lucier

The demographic of rugby is very much a target for our business because they have a high income. We have aspirations of being a global brand and rugby is a major contributor.

Gary Chapman

Things have changed throughout the state and a lot of farmers now have off-farm income.

Dennis Alford

In the debate earlier in Austin, (Texas) came perilously close to getting an income tax.

Stephen Moore

We need to finally get a respectable income.

Frank Montgomery

There's no doubt that the effect of the tax cuts . . . have been an enormous factor in producing the additional income that has found its way now into the federal treasury.

Joshua B. Bolten

We believe now that we will exit the year with 45 percent of our total income coming from beyond-the-box.

John Todd

When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income.

Chi Chi Rodriguez

We need more jobs, and this could help bring in more jobs. We're on a fixed income, so (not increasing rates is) important.

Kathy Moore

The Government is determined to improve producer prices for milk to cushion farmers against the negative effects of drought and also boost their income.

Njeru Ndwiga

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

We talk about buying food and cooking on a limited income.

Janice Parks

From one period to the next, investors could see some income swings.

John Hollyer

What has been the fastest-growing federal tax imposed on middle-income Americans over the past 20 years?,

Stephen Moore

And when the income tax was introduced, she was the first person to sue the government over taxes.

Hutton Wilkinson

But middle-income families earning $40,000 a year can expect a tax cut of thirty dollars a year.

Robert Matsui

These 100 million individuals have a per capita GDP equal to that of the U.K. or Germany, ... This is a very comfortable population with significant disposable income.

Steve Heller

Income, benefits, friends, reputation, and sometimes even family.

Joanne Ciulla

For the last four years, the picture, especially for low-income Americans, has gotten worse.

Ron Haskins

Income is tilting toward the top end of the scale.

Peter Francese

When (home-price) appreciation gets too far away from income, you are more likely to see a decline in home prices.

Beth Haiken

This is an area where people can look for current income, especially when they're in the upper tax brackets.

Tom Roseen

With the equity market the way it is and the fixed-income market the way it is, many [investors] find hedge funds attractive.

Jefferson Duarte

So there's actually big differences for low- and moderate-income families -- better under Gore. Big differences for very high-income families -- they get a lot more under Bush.

Robert Greenstein

It's a boon for income, but it's gotten so high so fast, we're waiting for the other shoe to drop.

Michael Covington

If you want to impact sprawl, you have to impact families. That's why there's sprawl in the first place. They can't find housing in the city that meets their income level.

Peter Steinbrueck

Now I have grandchildren. It upsets me they'll have to leave the state to earn a good income.

Barbara Harris

We have no plans to convert to an income trust.

Charles Sims

Only about 10% of our low income neighborhoods have Internet connectivity and about 90% of higher income neighborhoods have connectivity. The goal is to give everyone equal access.

Dianah Neff

This is a significant expense for them that wasn't recognized on the income statement until now.

Rachel Barnard

We need to become a family resort that can be wholesome for whatever income bracket your are in.

Doug Wendel

The tax burden among income groups has been relatively unchanged. The administration bent over backwards to make sure that was the case.

Dan Mitchell

You are fining students that have no income.

John Dawson

These are single moms who can't make it, it's too hard. They have no income and no way to make money.

Bruce Sonnenberg

It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.

E. F. Schumacher

Use a thousand ways to boost rural income and decrease peasants' burden.

Zhu Rongji

It's the only inflation-adjusted income source most older Americans have.

Evelyn Morton

The amount is higher than we expected ... clearly it's a factor because of the amount of disposable income it takes out of the system ... It has some ripple effect.

Eric Ridenour

This huge middle class has a lot of disposable income. It's also hungry for Western-branded goods. Wal-Mart early on found this fact to be very profitable.

Erik Autor

Low-income Canadians benefit relatively little from these tax cuts, yet they may be hurt a great deal when child care and other programs are cut to pay for tax cuts that largely benefit high-income families.

Ellen Russell

The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers Are Going Broke.

Elizabeth Warren

The law is clear that income from the casino gaming activities of Native American tribes is taxable.

Eileen J. O'connor

We're still not relaxed. But the income here has helped us greatly.

Edwin Welsh

The average American's real income and consumption is the highest it's ever been.

Edward Yardeni

For him life wasn't chasing income and fame. It was about making his soul complete.

Fred Walker