Quotes for All
Texas has no income tax, which is a big draw for corporate executives who do business there. But it’s hardly tax-free. The property taxes are high for a Southern state. The sales taxes are high. One study found that the bottom 20 percent of the Texas population pays 12 percent of its income in state … Read more
For a border state, I would argue that Texas is less lunatic on the subject of immigration issues than other places around it, like Arizona. They’re much more comfortable with their long-term identity as a place with a very large Hispanic population. Gail Collins
Professional sports, in of itself, is a fantasy, for the majority of the population. Gabriel Luna
Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. G. M. Trevelyan
There is no time in American history in which there was more economic conflict between segments of the population than there was prior to the Civil War. G. Edward Griffin
Bolivia’s majority Indian population was always excluded, politically oppressed and culturally alienated. Our national wealth, our raw materials, was plundered. Indios were once treated like animals here. In the 1930s and 40s, they were sprayed with DDT to kill the vermin on their skin and in their hair whenever they came into the city. Evo … Read more
Simply getting a country’s population online is not going to trigger a revolution in critical thinking. Evgeny Morozov
Unless we do things in this country to slow down our population, slow down our birth control, provide better water for people, provide power for people, we’re gonna find out that the next wars are not going to be fought over diamonds, gold and political things. Evel Knievel
Today the United States has the highest prison population in the world, over 2.1 million people. … We lock people up at a rate that is seven to ten times that of any other democracy. Eve Ensler
When a population saves a lot, the funds are invested outside the country as well as inside. If the Japanese invest in the United States, it pushes their exchange rate down and makes their manufacturing more competitive. Evan Davis