The fact is that the burden should be proportionate and fair and balanced.
But they and the families who await their safe return carry far more than their fair share of the burden.
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Matters are made much worse by the sense that the military is being asked to pay more than its fair share of the burden associated with deficit-reduction.
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"We want to make sure we're playing our full role, but equally we've got to make sure that all countries are bearing their fair share of the burden and that's the discussion we will have, " he said.
No better than to hear it directly from the man at the top, and one who leads a team at Penn that, like a few other institutions, are leading the way to greater access and affordability to provide kids a great education at a fair price, without the onerous burden of thousands of dollars in student loans.
And he said the poorest would bear a greater burden than the richest, questioning whether they were "fair".
In Berlin, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble called the levy part of the "fair" distribution of the bailout's burden.
And then we can discuss about how we achieve that kind of balanced package that I think most people agree is necessary to help our economy and most people agree is fair when it comes to everyone bearing the burden fairly and equally to get our deficits under control.
And it's not -- it's not fair to them and it's also putting enormous burden on, for example, our borders.
If you think, rather, that fairness means "asking those with the broadest shoulders to carry the heaviest burden", then you might not think this particular change is fair.
What it takes is a willingness, as we see it, of Republicans to accept the fact that it is only fair and right that the wealthiest Americans bear some of the burden here of reducing our deficit and getting our long-term debt under control, and listen to their constituents instead of to Grover Norquist about what the right priorities here are.
We very much hope that the super committee will fulfill its mandate, produce a proposal that is balanced and fair, that doesn't ask any sector of society to bear the burden of reducing our deficits and getting our fiscal house in order.
This would permit the burden to be borne by society in general in a fashion that we can agree is distributionally fair.
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Both senators have repeatedly said the measure is not intended to increase the tax burden on a particular industry, but rather to make sure that all Americans are paying their fair share of taxes.
Hopefully this repeal or modification might initiate a wider discussion and review of information reporting that looks to lightening the burden on small businesses seeking to comply with the tax laws, while balancing that with the fair concerns about addressing the tax gap.
They are expressing grievances not only against the banks but more importantly against the blatant income inequality in the U.S., with the 1% ultra-rich paying less of their fair share in taxes while the downtrodden low-income masses bear more of the burden, even as massive unemployment has made their lives more unbearable.
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