The biggest exclusion of all, for employer-sponsored health insurance, mostly benefits middle-income people, not the rich.
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Low- and middle-income people would pay a greater share of what they earn than rich people.
Voluntary insurance, even with reforms, would remain out of reach for tens of millions of middle-income people.
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Bottom line, these average, low- to middle-income people didn't have political power.
"The idea that middle-income people will be pursued by collection agencies, for many people, is not something they ever would have thought would happen to them, " he says.
But, as the results show, this is a false promise that leads to a less secure economy, less opportunity for low and middle-income people, and higher middle-class taxes.
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The lower taxes on investment income mean that many high-income taxpayers face a lower ETR than middle- and upper-middle-income people who get almost all of their income from working.
It then calls for extending the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, eliminating taxes on interest, dividends, and capital gains for low- and middle-income people (money made from investing, basically), and reducing the corporate tax rate, among other tax cut proposals.
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And middle-income people would pay less.
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Despite bouncy growth in a middle-income country of 115m people, Mexican banks have also been helped by their own caution.
Keeping middle- and lower-income people from having higher tax burdens is one reason the White House has proposed keeping the tax cuts in place for these Americans.
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He agrees with Messrs Kharas and Rogerson that, as middle-income countries take more people out of poverty, the proportion of poor people who live in poor countries must rise.
Dillard's Inc. ( DDS - news - people ) caters to middle- and upper-middle-income women, selling name-brand and private-label merchandise with a focus on apparel and home furnishings.
In low- and middle-income countries, more than 8 million people living with HIV are now receiving antiretroviral therapy.
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On average, in middle-income countries about 60% of rural people live within two kilometers of an all-season road.
He continued on Tuesday to insist that simple math argued that Republicans' alternative to higher rates would not work, not without affecting middle-income taxpayers and eroding charitable contributions from people seeking the tax advantages for their donations.
At the moment, 8m people in poor and middle-income countries take them and the aim is to increase that to 15m.
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And it says about eight million people in low and middle-income countries are getting the treatment they need, up from just 0.4 million in 2003.
Derek Headey of the International Food Policy Research Institute has shown that despite the world food-price spike, people's assessment of their own food situation in most poor and middle-income countries was better in 2008 than it had been in 2006.
In contrast, for western Europe, the supply of well-educated people from the east may now sputter as the immediate neighbours become the sort of middle-income and relatively elderly countries that need to import workers, not export them.
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.
On item 1: There is a big difference between a safety net that prevents starvation and homelessness and income transfer programs that provide middle-class comforts to people who for whatever reason did not earn them in the private economy.
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However, we must do much more to ensure that the over 5 million people needing antiretroviral therapy in low- and middle-income countries gain access to it.
Today, four out of five people with NCDs live in low- and middle-income countries, and the World Economic Forum has identified NCDs as one of the top four global risks and one of the most important threats to businesses and economies.
They could do what the Democrats allege: Scale back tax preferences in such a way that middle-income households pay higher taxes than they do today while high-income people enjoy a tax cut.
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The people who are having a hard time right now are middle-income Americans.
With around 200 million people, a growing middle class, and a per-capita income rising by almost 7% a year, Brazil imports more goods and services from the United States than from any other nation mainly high-tech, manufactured goods from aircraft to chemicals to clean energy components.
South Korea is merely a middle-income country, with only a minimal social safety net to offer its own people, let alone abject North Koreans, who are perhaps 15 times poorer than their southern counterparts (whereas East Germans were two or three times poorer than West Germans at the time of unification).
It's no accident that ObamaCare was written to add about 15 million more people to the Medicaid rolls, most of whom will be middle-income earners.
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