He picked images of Americans rich and poor, working and idle, northern, southern and western.

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Reduce tax rates and the working rich will work more while the idle rich will accelerate capital gains, shift their investments to more economically efficient private securities, and hide less income.

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Raise tax rates and the working rich will work less, defer income, and take more non-cash compensation while the idle rich will defer capital gains, shift their investments to more tax efficient securities like municipal bonds, and (yes) evade taxes.

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Only half of the marine division's 300 boats are in working order, observers say, and even those are often idle for want of fuel.

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Everyone comes in because everyone knows how important it is to share ideas and have idle chit-chat as well as important conversations about the projects everyone on the team is working on.

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