The other centre-right outfit, Civic Platform, gains support mainly among well-educated, better-off, urban voters.
When it comes to cutting welfare, benefits for better-off pensioners have had a lot of attention.
Labour countered by rubbishing the Tories' savings proposal, saying that it would principally benefit better-off savers.
Better-off travellers, who would use the line most, would reap most of the benefits.
Using it to pay for services used mainly by the better-off makes it even more so.
As household budgets have shrunk, better-off Yemenis have had less to give their poorer neighbours.
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But a hodgepodge of income phaseouts deny some of the breaks to better-off families.
The pattern of future growth may, relatively speaking, favour today's low-income groups more than the better-off.
Whatever the intention, the subsidy system helps the better-off much more than the poor.
So, as elsewhere in the region, thousands of the better-off send their children overseas to study.
It may be that Wall Street prefers the Republicans because the party favours the better-off.
Ministers say the cuts are needed to ensure the better-off do their bit to reduce the deficit.
The schemes combined profligacy and inequity by directing benefits mainly to a small elite of better-off employees.
Given that the chancellor's avowed aim is to help the poor, the better-off will have to pay.
As internet use rises in Brazil and reaches new social groups, better-off Brazilians are leaving Orkut for Facebook.
These outlays are wasteful and mostly benefit better-off people who own vehicles, or farm large plots of land.
But an evaluation this year revealed that better-off families had gained more from it than the poorest ones.
In the poorest postcodes, children were three times more likely to be hit by cars than in better-off areas.
Better-off families, mainly those of white European origin, were leaving such suburbs, creating an even greater sense of isolation.
Letting them charge fees would at least lessen the subsidy to the better-off.
These days, for instance, the Socialists are wary about suggesting that even the better-off should be more heavily taxed.
At the time, she did not understand why her better-off neighbours shunned her.
Another dividing line that Labour is keen to draw has to do with readiness to raise taxes on the better-off.
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"Eventually, inevitably, the better-off will face higher rates, " says Clint Stretch, managing principal of national tax policy at Deloitte Tax.
To the extent that he has succeeded, the markets and economy have been better-off for stocks achieving their true price.
If the Scottish Parliament took on that burden, it would be helping better-off families while doing nothing for poor families.
GDP, the attractions of the schemes are clear, especially because they enjoy tax breaks that make them popular among the better-off.
Whatever the obstacles, there is a compelling reason why the better-off should spend more on healing the sick in poor countries.
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He pledged that deficit reduction measures would be achieved "fairly" with further savings from bureaucracy, from benefit bills and the better-off.
But the committee says better-off Indians already possess many other forms of identity, and so asks how the number helps them.
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