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Nicholas Johnson Quotes

«All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?»
Author: Nicholas Johnson | About: Television | Keywords: educational, The Question
«A viewer who skips the advertising is the moral equivalent of a shoplifter.»
«It used to be that people needed products to survive. Now products need people to survive.»
«This is a growing environmental problem.»
«What happened before, until about 15 years ago, was that you used it and forgot about it, like anything else in society [at that time]. We decided that was not really the wisest long term strategy.»
«Of the 13,000 objects, over 40 percent came from breakups of both spacecraft and rocket bodies.»
«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.»
«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.»
«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.»
«Taxing poor families runs counter to decades of effort to help people lift themselves out of poverty through work.»