In other words, non-charitable deductions were almost twice as significant to the arguably rich than to the very rich.
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Still more astonishing was the extent to which the super rich got rich faster than the merely rich.
The new permissiveness affects city-dwellers more than country people, the rich more than the poor.
And more so, when it rallies against corruption - which actually hurts the poor more than the rich and the middle class.
The licence fee is already a regressive tax, because the poor pay a higher proportion of their income than the rich for the same service.
The report this week by the Congressional Budget Office, forecasting substantial budget surpluses after 2001, will probably reopen the argument that this year's budget has done far more to relieve the rich than help the poor.
The lack of technological knowledge is the reason for the wide disparity between the rich and the poor nations today, because the rich nations are getting richer much faster than the poor nations due to investment in technological knowledge, the gap will continue to widen.
Indeed, while the poor and black are more likely to be obese than the rich and white, the Rand Corporation's Roland Sturm pooh-poohs the notion that higher education and greater wealth will stem the broadening tide.
So the rich pay 15 times as much in federal income taxes as the middle class, even though the middle class, defined as the middle 20% of income earners, earns more income than the rich, defined as the top I% of income earners.
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In a free society giving by the rich supposes that the rich will willingly pay more than their fair share.
And in some cities the poor are poorer and the rich richer than the national average.
And he rejected comments by the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) that the party's claim that "the poor pay more in income tax than the rich" is, as the IFS puts it, "meaningless at best, misleading at worst".
Exactly the same logic tells us that if the rich are more likely to spend than the poor then we must tax the poor and give the money to the rich to spend.
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Because the price of services rose by more than the price of goods during this period, the inflation rate for the rich was far higher than that for the poor.
Should we conclude that the ultra-rich are no longer getting rich at a rate faster than the rest of us?
When the web app is more feature-rich than the standalone version, it's pretty tough to say it's worth even the time and energy to download it.
Either way, few ideas appeal to the French more than punishing the rich.
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The market has become more of an exclusive gambling club for the very rich than a level playing field open to the ordinary investor.
What is missing from all this talk about tax is the fact that although the rich pay higher taxes than the poor, middle-class people actually pay a higher percentage of their income in total taxes.
Cadbury's Ron Pugsley said its researchers found that the Chinese don't like big bars of chocolate, because they regard sharing bars as unhygienic, so the company now produces more sizes, and smaller ones, than in the rich world.
The Christians are dangerous because they might upset the cozy social order than has allowed the rich to oppress the poor for millennia.
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So any fair tax cut gives more money back to the rich than the poor.
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Deplore, if you want, the fact that the rich are getting richer faster than the poor are.
Note what this means: the poor are subsidised because they have lower income tax rates than the rich.
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But they tend to fall more heavily on the poor than the rich.
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It's an acknowledgment that the global economic community has grown far larger than the rich G-7 nations that gather regularly.
He later clarified saying he meant that the poor and disadvantaged were more likely to get caught than the rich.
Not only are they more prone to deadly infectious diseases than the rich, but they have far less access to the means of improvement.
The reason is simple: A consumption levy would not tax income from saving, and low- and moderate-income people save a lot less than the rich.
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Politicians are not going to adopt a system that taxes the wages of the rich at a lower rate than the wages of blue-collar workers.
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