Yet there are plenty of people of other countries, many Mexicans for example, would gladly pay 33% in taxes on their wages if they could live in the U.S. and get everything else most of us in the U.S. take for granted as part of the infrastructure.
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Unlike just about everyone else today, De Soto understands intimately that one of the biggest stumbling blocks to economic progress in formerly communist or developing countries such as Peru is the lack of well-defined, easily accessible property rights that we in the U.S. and the West take for granted.
This would turn the majority of that country's squatters into legal property owners, who would have the rights and protections that we in the U.S. and other Western nations take for granted.
We in the U.S. and other developed countries take it for granted that one can set up a lawful business in a matter of days or weeks.
Nor can one take unionist support for the agreement for granted.
For me, the U.S. is the land of opportunity, and values that some take for granted are quite tangible to me, having come from a hard background into the land of freedom, protection, safety, values and ideals.
The unfailingly consistent excellence of the Irish Rep is no less easy to take for granted.
So that the disabled have access to facilities the rest of us take for granted.
To be part of a team like this, we do not take it for granted.
The initial deterrent effect has largely disappeared because people just take it for granted.
It also mutes somewhat the Republican argument that the Democrats take the black vote for granted.
Confidence in a banking system is something we, here in America, take for granted.
Thereafter, European jockeys who came to race in India couldn't take the racing authorities for granted.
But we most certainly, as Rothkopf says, cannot afford to take it for granted.
It is a time to stop, look around, and think of all we take for granted.
But they are a warning to the president that he cannot take the highlands for granted.
An abundance of food at reasonable prices is something most Americans take for granted.
They often need our support navigating everyday civilian challenges that many nonmilitary folks take for granted.
WWT's Gary Mantle said the report shows that residents must not take the environment for granted.
On the evidence of this week in Brighton, he cannot take it for granted.
Left in private hands, industry strives to create the abundance we often take for granted.
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Ken Mehlman, the party chairman, implores blacks not to let the Democrats take their votes for granted.
Their life's work is our security, and the freedom that we all too often take for granted.
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Those of us who work in marketing and other communications disciplines today almost take this innovation for granted.
But with the weather being unpredictable, the firm said it was asking customers not to take water for granted.
Leading companies in the photovoltaic industry should not take their positions for granted.
There's nothing like a dependent class whose votes you can take for granted.
Light is actually a very basic need that we often take for granted.
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Mr Hubbert says the Germans have learnt an important lesson: that they should not take workers' loyalty for granted.
They're a good playing nation and we won't take this game for granted.
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