Hence, increasing tax rates on the already rich might not hurt growth as much as increasing tax rates on the soon-to-be rich.
Two, the very risk that the rich and famous might leave, aided by the appearance that some do, holds tax reform hostage.
For the rich, it might also mean hedge funds and private-equity participations.
The IMF's own recent analyses, which refute the idea that fiscal contractions boost growth in the short term, suggest that such a tightening might reduce the rich world's already weak growth next year by a percentage point or so.
Or, at a time of economic stagnation in much of the rich West, you might ask yourself why all that cheap money created by central banks seems to have pumped up the price of financial assets to a disturbing extent, while doing little to stimulate job creation.
Researchers reasoned that an enzyme that breaks down proteins, which had the ability to digest proline-rich chains might be able to break down the gliadin fragment, making it harmless.
The same sum might be closer to rich if your North Carolina home were paid for and the kids had moved out.
But some are concerned that might encourage the rich to just leave France.
Indeed, for predators able to attack the core of a group directly, the rich choice of targets there might actually make it a better place to look for a meal.
Even if the poor world signs up fully to the WTO's existing disciplines, that might not satisfy some in the rich world.
In a peculiarly American way, the cabin-fee issue has therefore turned into a sort of morality play in which these people argue that the government should keep their rents low in order to prevent something even worse: the prospect that public lands might become solely a province of the rich.
They hold out the possibility that the poor might earn money in the job markets of the rich, to the benefit of both, without creating all the social problems that the past half-century of immigration has entailed.
The undertaker had suggested that this might be against the law, but she and Rich had had their facts straight.
But given a bit of tweaking with a series of sliders that simulate mike placement and compression, the Variax becomes the Rich Little of the guitar world and does convincing impressions of instruments that might set you back 20 grand if you had to buy them all separately.
How the rule might work has now been fleshed out, and it is both easier on the idle rich and a messier piece of tax policy than one might have imagined.
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Those rich, educated Californians building out the Internet might be prompted to try their own medicine.
Those anxious that the rich world's economic power is ebbing might welcome a few emerging-market slip-ups.
Possibly, ageing natives in rich countries might do more of the jobs that they now shun.
And Bill Gates has said that importing a rich-country tool might not help the poor.
Moreover, many emerging markets remain desperate for fresh finance, and rich-country governments worry that the private sector might turn off the tap altogether.
At this point you might ask: Where in the world have rich people willingly paid more taxes?
If political pressure became strong enough, rich countries might decide to squeeze foreign labour whatever the economic price.
But if some other means of clearing cells rich in P16INK4A from the body could be found, it might have the desired effect.
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Likewise, expendable-resource-rich countries, such as the oil-producing nations, might want to build up reserves (and establish sovereign wealth funds) to share their blessings with future generations who may no longer be able to depend on that resource.
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And, who knows, it might even turn out that philanthropy is wot gives the rich pleasure.
The material discussed in this account is so rich and varied that it might have overwhelmed a lesser writer.
This might sound paltry compared with the billions that drug companies spend on rich-country diseases, such as arthritis.
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