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The Thrifty Food Plan is still The Thrifty Food Plan. What is the least amount of money that a family that is struggling would have to have spend to have a healthy diet ? share Our Strength's not generous by any means. – Lisa Davis	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The updated Thrifty Food Plan better reflects the way families live today, where working households do not have unlimited hours to prepare food from scratch and modern dietary guidelines advise a wider variety of foods, particularly leafy greens and lean proteins, which can be more costly. – Lisa Davis	Found on CNN 2 years ago
If I have worked harder and built myself a good house while you have been content to live in a hovel, the tax gatherer now comes annually to make me pay a penalty for my energy and industry by taxing me more than you. If I have saved while you wasted, I am [taxed] while you are exempt. If a man built a ship, we make him pay for his temerity as though he had done injury to the state; if a railroad be opened, down comes the tax collector upon it as though were a public nuisance.... We punish with a tax the man who covers barren fields with ripening grain; we fine him who puts up machinery and him who drains a swamp. To abolish these taxes would be to lift the whole enormous weight of taxation from productive industry.... The state would say to the producer, 'Be as industrious, as thrifty, as enterprising as you choose. You shall have your full reward! – Henry George	added by Normando 5 years ago
Nature is the most thrifty thing in the world; she never wastes anything; she undergoes change, but there is no annihilation, the essence remains - matter is eternal. – Horace Binney	added by anonymous 13 years ago
It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow. – Aesop	added by anonymous 14 years ago

The Thrifty Food Plan is still The Thrifty Food Plan. What is the least amount of money that a family that is struggling would have to have spend to have a healthy diet ? share Our Strength's not generous by any means.

– Lisa Davis

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The updated Thrifty Food Plan better reflects the way families live today, where working households do not have unlimited hours to prepare food from scratch and modern dietary guidelines advise a wider variety of foods, particularly leafy greens and lean proteins, which can be more costly.

– Lisa Davis

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If I have worked harder and built myself a good house while you have been content to live in a hovel, the tax gatherer now comes annually to make me pay a penalty for my energy and industry by taxing me more than you. If I have saved while you wasted, I am [taxed] while you are exempt. If a man built a ship, we make him pay for his temerity as though he had done injury to the state; if a railroad be opened, down comes the tax collector upon it as though were a public nuisance.... We punish with a tax the man who covers barren fields with ripening grain; we fine him who puts up machinery and him who drains a swamp. To abolish these taxes would be to lift the whole enormous weight of taxation from productive industry.... The state would say to the producer, 'Be as industrious, as thrifty, as enterprising as you choose. You shall have your full reward!

– Henry George

added by Normando
5 years ago

Nature is the most thrifty thing in the world; she never wastes anything; she undergoes change, but there is no annihilation, the essence remains - matter is eternal.

– Horace Binney

added by anonymous
13 years ago

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.

– Aesop

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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