Friends, I'm angry about what's happening in politics today! Why is it wrong to ask the wealthiest people and most profitable corporations to pay their fair share?
All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting 'the rich' to pay 'their fair share' is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics.
Edith Vonnegut behaved like a guest in her children's lives. To her way of thinking, parenting came under the general heading of household tasks, which, as a wealthy woman, she could pay others to do.
And understand that scarce spectrum is used today for example for cell phone operators, they have to pay for the airwaves they use, for their services.
my unexpected trip to the light may have been cancelled, but here I was, still paying the cost of the return ticket
Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
The evergreen story of people in debt becomes even sexier in an economic downturn, when debts inevitably get harder to pay.
Hardworking is a good attribute, but the pay off is determined by whether you are investing the great effort in the right place.
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
It always amazes me when people go rent horses and ride them. You mean you want me to pay you to ride a horse?
Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.
My life is like a Kevin Smith movie." "Zany and unpredictable?" "Mildly humorous but ultimately not worth the effort of paying for a ticket.
Lots of folks want success without sacrifice. Life doesn't work that way. Be willing to pay the price for your dreams.
For the vast majority of Americans who work hard and play by the rules, paying the bills may be hard some months, but it's something we always do.
I know NBC pays my salary but I have never doubted who I work for. I think about the people who watch. They're the ones who matter to me.
I'd like to work with horses, but it doesn't pay very well. Maybe I'd like to go somewhere in the Middle East because they keep buying really nice horses for their Olympic teams - like, the Qataris.
I don't think we need to extend unemployment any further without paying for it, and without making some modifications such as turning it into a loan at some point. It then encourages people to go back to work.
Unfair trade deals like the North American Free Trade Agreement eviscerated good-paying manufacturing jobs, putting more than 3 million U.S. workers out of work.
Slavery was not a bad day on the job. It was not your boss yelling at you. It was not hard work for little pay. This was a full system of human subjugation.
As I noted in my Nobel lecture, an early insight in my work on the economics of information concerned the problem of appropriability - the difficulty that those who pay for information have in getting returns.
I met Cynthia when I was 12, proposed at 16, became engaged at 17, married her at 19 and we had a baby when I was 20. If extra work could pay for a lot of diapers, that was for me.
