This is essentially the upper middle classes stating that the billionaires should be paying more tax.
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This price barrier makes the coffee shop culture mainly a preserve of the upper middle classes in India.
Another reason is that the upper middle classes have held their own.
Simply put, the values that lead to failure are in no way the sole preserve of the upper middle classes, let alone white people.
Hence his venomous anger at postwar England's "sycophantic, phlegmatic and pusillanimous" upper middle classes, among whom the right accent was far more valuable than a high IQ.
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My own opinion, and I stress that this is personal opinion, not something the result of deep academic study, is that the Portuguese economy is in the grips of the professional upper middle classes.
The upper and middle classes are still enthusiastic about the Army, the poor far less so.
Universal coverage is never as universal as its proponents want it to be, and it usually results in a double- or triple-tier system as the upper-middle classes flee.
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It benefits the upper and upper-middle classes, the argument goes, by the strict standards it imposes to protect the land: growth control, open space, maintained eco-systems and the preservation of town or village character.
But I think most people, at least those of us in upper middle income classes and above, would gladly pay higher taxes if it would enable more of our children to participate in school sports.
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While the Wall Street Journal (and others) look at China on a GDP per capita or the average spending power of the populace, these sources are overlooking the spending size of the upper middle and upper classes.
Vejjajiva's Democrat Party, which draws the majority of its support from Thailand's middle and upper classes, found itself with a majority in parliament.
Corruption may have left some in Brazil's middle and upper classes disillusioned with President Lula, but among the country's estimated 38 million poor people it seems an abstraction not worth contemplating.
Because this fee will never be paid by the middle or upper classes with sufficient average balances, every dollar collected because of it will come directly out of the disposable income of the poorest Americans.
There was criticism, too, of the fact that many projects were of a kind more likely to benefit the middle and upper classes which, in poor countries as in rich ones, are often better able to take advantage of infrastructure, such as new hospitals, which the bank helps to create.
These then morphed into "banks for bankers" - clearing houses which would mop up liquidity among the middle and upper classes and spread it through the private banking system (in the lobby of the Bank of England there is a nice painting of the English bourgeoisie queuing up at Threadneedle Street on Dividend Day by George Elgar Hicks).
The rise in inequality is, as those protesters reminded us as they camped out last year, not really between the poor and the middle classes, nor really even between the middle and the upper.
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This is somewhat true, particularly for parts of London and New York, which can survive high ratios because their markets are less national and middle-income and more tied to the global upper classes.
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