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How To Use spendable In A Sentence

• As far as being able to spend some of the income from these gains, most of the interest and dividend payments are not in spendable form but locked in tax-sheltered investments -- only 20 per cent of U.S. households actually receive spendable dividends. Investment Forum—1996
• When you get into this type of economy, where the consumer does not have the kind of spendable income that they had previously, they tend to do more things as a family," Neil Friedman, president of Mattel brands, said in a telephone interview. Board Games Benefit from Bad Economy
• Academic research shows that small increases in paychecks are viewed as "spendable" income, while larger lump sums are viewed as wealth to be saved. Kentucky.com: Homepage
• But having no spendable currency hampered their happiness.
• As long as he was doing something, or surveying an area of a plan, he would be quite happy and his mind would be off chivvying his brother about quick ways to turn stolen silver into spendable cash.
• Saving a bet is neither dramatic, nor ego satisfying, nor likely to rouse the envy of your peers and adversaries, but it's spendable cash.
• Yet now that they, the socialists, have won, they have to resort to the IRS to run and maintain the system which will lead to more invasive control of the individual Americans 'spendable' income toward mandated insurance and less toward individual investing in retirement systems, stocks, and general personal disposable income. Propeller Most Popular Stories
• Tax cuts are sometimes a good idea, and there are some groups in our society who would benefit greatly from increased spendable income.
• A 1996 study by Linda Ginnarelli and Eugene Steuerle at the Urban Institute examined the changes in what we are calling spendable income for different hypothetical families currently on welfare if they were to become employed in a minimum-wage job.3 The tax implications include actual taxes paid, lost welfare benefits, and any expenditure necessary for the job such as commuting expenditures for both part-time and full-time employment. RETURN TO PROSPERITY
• They distribute shares rather than cash, so investors don't get spendable income, but pay taxes only when they sell. Oil Partnerships Keep Rolling