Yet few Britons tip cashiers, boycott firms with fat-cat bosses or watch second-division football teams.

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For some in the working class here--the random cab driver, small-time actor, bellhop--Slim's fat-cat wealth is reason enough for suspicion.

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After all, there's no way the baseball cartel would allow more teams to threaten the paydays of fat-cat owners and players.

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It's that we don't really mind ripping off huge fat-cat corporations, which would probably do the same to us given half the chance.

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Fat-cat moves that can get you in trouble with the AMT nowadays include having too many children or living in a high-tax state (since state and local taxes are not deductible under the AMT).

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Fat-cat executives running investment firms, banks, insurance, health care and pharmaceutical companies might like to curb health care mandates, but that approach certainly doesn't address the needs of Americans looking for decent wages and affordable health care.

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They are the first to defend the rights and privileges of boards to award fat-cat salaries, bonuses and pension rights to the select few but they are the first to attack policies that are put in place to merely defend the rights of those that really make those fat cats purr!

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Nearly two thirds of voters plan to back the so-called anti-fat cat initiative in the referendum that would allow a binding annual shareholder vote on executive compensation for listed companies and block big payouts for new hires and for managers when they leave.

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Leave 10-year Treasuries yielding 2 percent to fat cat institutions who have nowhere to go with their capital which needs investment grade ratings.

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