Americans are reducing their overall debt burden, a process known as deleveraging that began with the financial crisis.

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They are wealthy and worldly enough to know that while their present location is nice and familiar, there are a large number of countries that would welcome their presence and where they could reproduce their current business and personal lives while greatly reducing their total tax burden.

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The current tax regime has the perverse effect of encouraging motorists to make additional journeys, by reducing the tax burden of people who use their cars a lot.

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The income threshold will ensure that people who wish to start a family life here can "stand on their own two feet", thereby reducing the burden on the taxpayer, the home office minister added.

BBC: Immigration debate

We hope that Congressional Republicans back off their insistence of putting the entire burden of reducing the deficit on the backs of the middle class and seniors because, as the President said on Tuesday, the true economic engine in this country is a thriving and rising middle class.

WHITEHOUSE: Statement by the Press Secretary

That agenda starts with reducing the burden of government on the free enterprise system and everyone who seeks to thrive of their own merit.

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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.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing