Sentences with phrase «by wealthy citizens»

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By Martin's definition of success, we're still way behind — but it seems to me that having wealthier citizens is more meaningful.

The nearest I ever came to engaging in a deliberate act of civil disobedience was about a decade ago when I read The Great Treasury Raid by Philip M. Stern.1 This book tells how the tax laws of this country have been manipulated by wealthy people and huge corporations for their own interests and to the disadvantage of the large majority of less privileged citizens.

People in countries that provide citizens with a high level of economic security have a higher level of happiness on average, as measured by surveys of national levels of life - satisfaction and happiness... The most important determinant of national happiness is not income level — there is a positive association, but rising income seems to have little effect as wealthy countries grow more wealthier.

John P. McCormick: Well, I merely offered a sketch for how a modern institution that excluded wealthy citizens might wield some of the powers held by the Roman tribunes within modern electoral democracies.

Super PACs like those, as well as secretive nonprofit groups — both spurred by the 2010 Citizens United decision and other federal court rulings — allowed extremely wealthy activists to play in presidential and congressional politics like never before.

Together with Citizens United, this decision guts our campaign finance system and opens the door to corruption by handing a small minority of wealthy individuals the power to exercise undue influence over our government.»

Now we give a huge tax cut to the wealthy because Citizens United allowed the wealthy to by a Republican majority.

So presumably, the less wealthy, after being told what to spend their money on by «society» for all their working years, reach pensionable age fully moulded by a paternalistic government into financially responsible citizens who will commit a significant amount of their time to research where they want to invest their pensions, and subsequently enjoy «regular updates on how their pension fund was growing» — because of course, like house prices, pension funds can only rise in value.

Especially now: The current crop of Republican Senate challengers is hoping the new avenues opened up by the Citizens United decision will help separate them from the shoestring New York Republican campaigns of the past and help them keep up with the better - established candidate, in the same way that a few wealthy donors have managed to keep alive the under - funded presidential ambitions of Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich.

«Even if people think objectively and follow rules of statistical inference, richer and poorer people may be led, by the information available to them, to very different conclusions about how wealthy their fellow citizens are, on average, and how wealth is distributed across society.»

Hired by some of the country's wealthiest citizens in America's Gilded Age, members of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency infiltrated unions, protected strikebreakers, and worked to keep union supporters out of plants and mines.

Politicians supporting them are financially backed by wealthy individuals and organizations that are not motivated toward raising our youngsters to be competent citizens in a democracy.

In his earliest days, this breed was almost exclusively owned by Cuba's wealthy upper class citizens.

Latin Songbirds depicts «three left - leaning Latin American leaders who are trying to reverse a history of rule by wealthy oligarchies, reject the U.S.'s and IMF's neoliberal economic policies, take control of their own resources, and improve the lives of their citizens, especially in the areas of literacy, health care, and economic well - being,» states artist Christa Maiwald.

Dismissing an earlier offer by wealthy countries of short - term finance for the developing world, Mr. Di - Aping, in typically strident language, said, «Ten billion dollars will not buy developing countries» citizens enough coffins.»

The High Court has dismissed a case brought by Gibson Dunn & Crutcher on behalf of the Republic of Djibouti against one of its wealthiest citizens citing a «campaign of persecution» against him.

Mercer is the type of wealthy citizen most emboldened by the Citizens United decision, unlikely to engage in the greasy work of bundling others» contributions but happy to directly sponsor his preferred causes.