Brian Rogers likes to invest in companies that are well-established and pay above-average dividends.
But even if you accept Mr. Geithner's case that the well-to-do must pay more for their presumed "privilege" of being governed, his story ignores the empirical fact that they already do pay a record share of income taxes, even relative to their share of income.
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They chose not to because they refused to accept the principle that the well-off and well-connected ought to pay a little bit towards deficit reduction.
From 2000-2009, pay was well-aligned with performance, and the leverage, or risk-orientation, of the program was balanced on both the upside and downside.
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As a result, pension investors are well-advised to pay careful attention to negotiating the terms of their participation in the partnership.
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The AMT is a shadow tax system ostensibly designed to make sure that fat cats with tax breaks like oil-well depletion pay at least some tax.
And the only thing that's prevented us so far from reaching an agreement is Republicans who have said that they are not going to ask the wealthy and the well-connected to pay any more in taxes to deal with our deficit challenges.
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Republicans should have, in our view, done what they had done just a few months before, which is pass a short-term measure to delay implementation of the sequester, a measure that would have represented the balance that the public supports, asking the well-off and well-to-do to pay a little bit, not just seniors and middle-class families, and that then regular order could have continued as it is now, but without the sequester.
Iain Duncan Smith has said he is "relaxed" about whether well-off pensioners should pay back some of their state benefits.
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Once they were studiously ignored, but now that they are known to be both well-off and prepared to pay whatever it takes to spot a rare bird they are wooed by cash-strapped ranchers and dilapidated Gulf coast towns.
The race we want to win, the race we can win is a race to the top -- the race for good jobs that pay well and offer middle-class security.
This means that many retirees with pensions will have to search for individual health insurance coverage (which may be difficult for many with pre-existing conditions to secure), as well as pay the greater costs involved in non-group plans.
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While the Shenandoah appraisal well encountered more than 1, 000 feet of net pay in high-quality Lower Tertiary-aged reservoirs, the Coronado exploration well encountered more than 400 feet of net pay.
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Our preferred approach is to focus on well-established tech companies that pay solid dividends.
President Obama is in favor of asking the well-to-do to pay more.
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But the well-advised may not all pay it.
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The economics of sports networks on cable television is well documented -- the majority pay so that the vocal minority may watch -- but sculpting an amateur sports league to ensure your cable TV channel gets carriage in America's largest media markets might be a new twist.
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In America over the past decade, the dominance of the chief executive (usually the only executive on the board) has increased, with non-executives providing huge pay and share-option packages as well as their cheers.
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Of course, once they get their degree and become well-off themselves, they will pay it forward to the next generation.
If he thinks he's sitting in a well-made car, he will pay handsomely for it, padding the profit margins of the hot carmaker.
He noted that other well-capitalized technology firms like Microsoft pay low interest rates and Apple would likely get even more attractive financing.
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On the flip side, when the most well-off Americans were asked to pay a little more in the 1990s, we were warned that it would kill jobs.
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The channel has close to 100 million subscribers in the U.S., which speaks of the huge demand as well as bundling strategies that pay-TV service providers adopt.
This was demographic news, to be sure, and it was stated at a time when the emergence of serious Chinese wealth was translating into more and more couples feeling they could well afford to pay the government-imposed financial penalties associated with having more than one child.
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Congress wants well-off college students--and their parents--to help pay for the small-business tax breaks it aims to hand out as part of a deal to raise the federal minimum wage.
At this point, we know that the budget surpluses of the '90s occurred in part because of the pay-as-you-go law, which said that, well, you should pay as you go and live within our means, just like families do every day.
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Our average fee per subscriber forecast is a mix of revenues that Dish Network generates from pay-TV as well as its small broadband business.
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If Mr Hatoyama does not make greater amends for his own and Mr Ozawa's follies, the DPJ could well pay for it in upper-house elections this July.
But they need to raise money from middle-class folks to pay benefits to the middle class, as well as to the less well-off.
That's the combined effect of the new law's higher capital-gains rate and limitation on deductions, as well as a new tax this year to help pay for the new health-care law.
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