Yes, rich people do pay more in taxes, but they also benefit a great deal more from government spending.

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Everyone seems to recognize that the GOP could benefit a great deal from putting some libertarian ideas into more serious practice.

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With a vote on unemployment-benefit renewal set to come before Congress yet again, a great deal of discussion about its impact is to be expected.

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But he remains -- while adhering to his principles -- hopeful that we can get a bigger deal, because it would be of such great benefit to the economy and to the American middle class.

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Another benefit is that a single number summarises what would otherwise be an immensely complicated picture, and one that varies a great deal (in quantitatively incommensurate ways) from country to country.

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