#raisin

Raising taxes doesn't create jobs, and this is a common sense thing. Washington doesn't get it. They believe if they take more money and send it to Washington, D.C. somehow they create wealth. It doesn't work. ↗

— Kevin Yoder

#common #common sense #create #get #jobs

What we need is more money back in the hands of Americans of any economic standing and so raising taxes right now doesn't make sense. ↗

— Kevin Yoder

#back #economic #hands #make #money

In general there should be gay characters in YA because a) surprise, there are gay folks everywhere and b) in my opinion as a father, there’s not a damn thing wrong with my child encountering gay folks in her literature, because see point a). ↗

— John Scalzi

#gay #glbt #literature #raising-kids #writing

When I became governor, spending actually increased 28 percent my first term. Revenue increased 42 percent my first term without raising anybody's taxes. We did it because we had more taxpayers with more taxable income. That's how you get the revenue up. We did that without raising anybody's taxes. ↗

— Haley Barbour

#anybody #became #because #did #first

I want a certain thing for my children. I just want to be in their life. I don't want nannies raising my kids. ↗

— Travis Barker

#children #i #just #kids #life

Raising children is an enormously important part of life. I think one of the most important, or the most important, period. ↗

— Eric Braeden

#enormously #i #i think #important #life

Raising the minimum wage means raising the living wage - and that's good news for Ohio. ↗

— Sherrod Brown

#good news #living #living wage #means #minimum

That kind of piece, perhaps most recognizable because of Yoko Ono's similar work, built a bridge between performance art and music - and without raising any awkward social issues. ↗

— Tony Conrad

#art #awkward #because #between #bridge

Our privacy is starting to be invaded and we can't get anything done. I'm happy with the fundraising but upset we don't have time to talk and meet with people. ↗

— Terry Fox

#done #fundraising #get #happy #i

The rules for raising children had gone out with her parents generation of daughters who had lived as Lucy had, in patient silence, acting by standards which had lasted generations, waiting to grow up to make their decisions, following the patterns of their own lives. ↗

— Susan Richards Shreve

#raising-children #women #love