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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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.
"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.
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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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.
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".
Still more astonishing was the extent to which the super rich got rich faster than the merely rich.
In other words, non-charitable deductions were almost twice as significant to the arguably rich than to the very rich.
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The new permissiveness affects city-dwellers more than country people, the rich more than the poor.
Either way, few ideas appeal to the French more than punishing the rich.
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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.
On one side many people believe that the future social dialectical barrier will be between those who know and those who do not know rather than between the rich and the poor people, and some times one has even seen science unappropriately used to give credit to something that has nothing to do with it.
But rather than live the rich life and do lunch at Spago in Beverly Hills, Gordon, 34, has set out to fix an intractable problem.
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.
And in some cities the poor are poorer and the rich richer than the national average.
But the new products were usually cheaper and easier to use, and so people or companies who were not rich or sophisticated enough for the old ones started buying the new ones, and there were so many more of the regular people than there were of the rich, sophisticated people that the companies making the new products prospered.
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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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.
Because then, Republicans can say they are voting to cut taxes for the majority of Americans, rather than raise them for the rich.
However, a few emerging economies have more creative unemployment-insurance schemes than anything in the rich world.
These newer mines generally have a lower PGM content and different palladium-to-platinum ratio than the nickel-rich ores.
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But the trend has been sharper in America than in most of the rich world, and the disparity has grown.
Back in 2009, more survey respondents said there were strong conflicts between immigrants and the native born than said the same about the rich and the poor.
But in order to compete for the brightest, poor countries need to pay them a much larger multiple of the average wage than would be true in the rich world.
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