Nicholas Johnson Quotes

Alabama now has become the only state with an income tax threshold below one-half of the poverty line. Every other state that taxed the incomes of the poor in the early 1990s has reduced or eliminated this tax burden. Alabama stands alone in its failure to act.

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• Poverty
• Tax
• Alabama

If a state's currently in the toilet, this is going to keep it there.

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• State
• Keep
• Toilet

All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?

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• Television
• Teaching
• Educational

Taxing poor families runs counter to decades of effort to help people lift themselves out of poverty through work.

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• Help
• Effort
• Poverty

Eliminating state income taxes on working families with poverty-level incomes gives a boost in take-home pay that helps offset higher child care and transportation costs that families incur as they strive to become economically self-sufficient. In other words, relieving state income taxes on poor families can make a meaningful contribution toward making work pay.

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• Pay
• Taxes
• Families

A viewer who skips the advertising is the moral equivalent of a shoplifter.

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• Advertising
• Equivalent
• Viewer

The current debris population in low Earth orbit has reached the point where collisions will become the dominant debris-generating mechanism in the future.

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• Future
• Earth
• Debris

It used to be that people needed products to survive. Now products need people to survive.

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• Need
• Survive
• Products

In too many states, the poor and near-poor who are working to join the middle class are instead being taxed right back into poverty. For a family in poverty, a few hundred dollars is a lot of money.

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• Poverty
• Class
• States

Of the 13,000 objects, over 40 percent came from breakups of both spacecraft and rocket bodies.

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• Objects
• Rocket
• Breakups