#wealthy

Tax rates for the wealthy should revert to Clinton-era levels, both because it is necessary for long-term deficit reduction and because fairness dictates it. Moreover, there is no proof that higher marginal rates dissuade investment, all the rhetoric from the Right notwithstanding. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#both #deficit #deficit reduction #dictates #fairness

I think I'm wealthy. I make a good living for what I do. Well, it depends. If I'm doing an independent film I'm making no money - probably losing money. But if I'm doing a studio film, I'll make a decent wage. I can live for a year without working. ↗

— Eric Stoltz

#depends #doing #film #good #good living

We have a lot of things we give away to people who are very, very wealthy in this country. And I'm not sure that our federal government can afford that. ↗

— Claire McCaskill

#away #country #federal #federal government #give

We are looking at a future where to a first approximation, everyone is wealthy. ↗

— Ralph Merkle

#everyone #first #future #looking #wealthy

There is a danger for Britain as we perceive ourselves, or as we are - less wealthy, facing economic austerity - that we essentially draw back. I think there is a recoil in parts of the country, and in parts of the government actually, from the multilateral system, and I think that's dangerous and wrong. ↗

— David Miliband

#austerity #back #britain #country #danger

My mom just didn't put a very high premium on me being like really famous or really wealthy or anything. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#being #famous #high #just #like

Instead, he sat in the parlor of his family's Fifth Avenue mansion, growing older by the minute just like everybody else. ↗

— Anna Godbersen

#wealthy #age

If your party serves the powerful and well-funded interests, and there's no limit to what you can spend, you have a permanent, structural advantage. We're averaging fifty-dollar checks in our campaign, and trying to ward off these seven- or eight-figure checks on the other side. That disparity is pretty striking, and so are the implications. In many ways, we're back in the Gilded Age. We have robber barons buying the government. ↗

— David Axelrod

#democrats #donations #fund-raising #gilded-age #government

If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you! ↗

— T. Harv Eker

#spiritual-growth #wealthy #change

In Europe the rich are refined enough to act as if they're not wealthy. That is how civilized people behave. If you ask me, being cultured and civilized is not about everyone being free and equal; it's about everyone being refined enough to act as if they were. Then no one has to feel guilty. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#culture #equality #guilt #refinement #rich