The gap between the ultra rich and the middle class and poor is enormous.
The marked reversal in tax revenue shown in the figure did not come disproportionately from any economic group (especially the middle class and poor).
But this statement ignores the more important question: How would the middle class and poor be affected by the higher tax rates that Buffett advocates.
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Whether they are upper middle class, rich, middle class or poor, the -- good education is something that everyone in all these communities and all communities want.
Obama halted all transfers to the poor Middle Eastern nation in 2010, after a man trained in Yemen was convicted in a failed bombing attempt of an airliner over Detroit.
If Robin Hood takes something for himself (administrative fees) or is inefficient or corrupt, the middle class and poor get a smaller percentage of their taxes back in the form of positive rights.
The biggest source of federal revenue throughout the New Deal was the excise tax on beer, cigarettes, soft drinks, chewing gum, radios and other cheap pleasures enjoyed disproportionately by middle class and poor people.
In fact, the World Bank was cited in a National Geographic article earlier this year forecasting that for the first time ever, more people in the world will be classified as middle class than poor in 2022.
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Although the rich may not notice the difference, the middle-class and poor pay the price.
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In the Middle East, the poor and the disenfranchised have risen up in revolt.
The New Deal was mainly paid for by the middle class and the poor.
This explains the astronomical obesity rates in countries that have switched from poor to middle-income status.
He did so by appealing to the modest aspirations of the poor, middle class and university students.
Are we a nation that asks only the middle class and the poor to bear the burden?
Ditto for whether the absolute standard of living of the poor and middle class improves or declines.
And the main focus has been on the middle class and the poor, but what about working-class families?
We cannot stop pressing our leaders to help struggling poor and middle-class Americans.
Harvard University, for instance, now offers affordable solutions for middle-income and poor families.
Most, perhaps all, poor and middle-income countries face chronic shortages of skilled workers.
Tax hikes on the poor and middle class are minuscule compared to the increases on the most productive small business owners.
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It applied to beer, cigarettes, soda, chewing gum and other cheap pleasures enjoyed disproportionately by the middle class and the poor.
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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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Even though rich, poor and middle-income Americans may share the same geography, we make and spend our money in very different ways.
In fact, the programmes helped make poor and middle-income countries more resilient.
We are all victims of Ben Bernanke, particularly the poor and middle-class.
The Democrats are likely to spend the next five months hollering that the Republican cuts will fall disproportionately on poor and middle-class Texans.
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Vast transfer programs are established to redistribute money to the poor, middle-class, rich, businesses, labor unions, lawyers, interest groups, and most everyone else.
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The lesson of centuries of economic history is that China is likely to get stuck in the middle: neither a poor economy nor a rich one.
You see what I mean when I say that economic growth is far more beneficial for the middle class and the poor than redistrubution?
He also promised that it would be neutral in terms of distribution: the relative positions of the rich, poor and middle class would not change.
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