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.
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 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.
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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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.
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.
"They particularly target frequent users, such as those visiting in-patients and those suffering from cancer, and they are socially regressive, falling relatively harder on the poor than the rich, " he continued.
Mr Romney, a former private-equity executive, is unsurprisingly less keen on red tape and soaking the rich than Mr Obama, which may explain a lot of his support on Wall Street.
Predictably agreement on the detail is now bogged down in spats, which can generally be characterised as supplicant, struggling southern nations wanting easier terms for potential rescues than the rich north would prefer.
Tax the rich and give the money to the poor to get the economy out of a hole: OK, but that only works if the poor are more likely to spend than the rich.
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They also predicted that the new measure would benefit the rich with substantial savings rather than encourage the less well-off to start saving.
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