Many European countries maintain a high standard of living today, despite rather high taxes.
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The Fed seems to have no conception of what creates a high standard of living--people receiving more pay for more sophisticated, productive work.
These responses distort the functioning of the economy, often reducing potential growth and the economy's ability to provide a high standard of living to all.
For much of the time since allied occupation ended in 1955, Austrians have had a high standard of living without extremes of rich or poor.
Lightmoor Village, Telford, was created with the help of Bournville Village Trust, which was founded in 1900 by the Quaker industrialist to provide a high standard of living for workers.
Wealthy individuals may have little income and yet have a very high standard of living.
There's a building boom on, traffic jams clutter the roads with new Toyotas and Hyundais, and many residents enjoy a relatively high standard of living.
No matter: the elderly, and many of the young, have been convinced that they have a right to Social Security payments high enough to maintain a comfortable standard of living despite old age, widowhood or disability, and this right is every bit as inalienable as the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Get it right, and the state will remain business-friendly and globally competitive, with high employment and a rising standard of living.
The ARMM has a low standard of living and high incidence of poverty and illiteracy has been perennially reported at high rates (FLEMMS, 2008).
It also said it would be immoral to hand a patent to Glivec given its high price and the low standard of living in India.
Why put up with an iffy economy and sky-high property prices when you can find a much better standard of living in the South and the Midwest?
But even allowing for that, Ireland remains a staggeringly successful country with, by global standards, an extraordinarily high standard of living.
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Thailand, a consistent high-performer in quality of life surveys, gets raves from expats for increasing their standard of living.
Investing in actively-managed mutual funds that charge high fees can lower your standard of living in retirement by as much as one-third over a low-cost index fund strategy.
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