Sentences with phrase «of wealthy folks»

But a small group of wealthy folks were convinced he was screwing up.

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Schulich, you see, has something to say to his neighbours on the list of Canada's 100 Wealthiest People, along with other rich folk who might be reading.

That's what the folks at FindTheBest, an online - research engine, found when they used recent census data to rank the 34 American cities with populations of 500,000 or more based on their percentages of wealthy households (defined as those with an annual income of $ 150,000 or above).

Some are famous, and others unknown — everyday folks, some running small ventures, who feel a connection to one of the wealthiest people on the planet.

If only 1 % of folks are considered wealthy and produces enough income to contribute up to max, how come unemployment rate is so high, crime rate is high?

The abnormalities of atheistic beliefs are in today's timelines littering profusely many cherished religious societies whose fundamentalisms have been a social consistency for many good years... Even though I am distasteful of today's religions in that they are usurping the least wealthy, I see their mismanaging of financial dexterities due each religion's hierarchies needing more money for themselves than for their communal poor folks...

And it doesn't help when you have a bunch of folks who think that helping the poor is some sort of waste of our taxes than helping the wealthy.

A stratified society, with wealthy landowners at the top and slaves at the bottom and, in between, a mass of poor folk skirting precariously the edge of servitude for debt and in times of depression forced into it or compelled to sell sons or daughters to redeem the family's fortunes — such a picture is revealed by a careful reading of the records.

«When you look at the tax breaks and 80 percent of them are going to the wealthiest people in the country,» said Seamans, «and that leaves 20 percent for regular folks, you say, «How can you fund anything that will benefit Middle America?»

The Republicans in Washington who are trying to eff over the average folks suffering big losses from the flood, in order to protect the tax breaks of the wealthy, will be dealt with in the next election — harshly.

«People who are driving into the central business district of Manhattan are pretty uniformly a lot wealthier than people taking public transit, so the folks who would have to potentially change behavior or who would pay a toll are the kind of folks who are already making quite a bit of money anyway, so it's equitable to make sure there's a toll in place,» said Sifuentes.

Probably a number of things including (1) not as wealthy as he claims, (2) lots of Russian debt, (3) does not give money to charity, (4) lots of tax avoidance using Panama, the Cayman's etc, and (5) he pays taxes at a very low rate that most working folk would be outraged by.

«I don't think that this population, given the explosion in the number of millionaires since the tax has been in place and the level of income that these folks have, that this would be a good time to provide a $ 3.7 billion tax cut to the wealthiest,» Deutsch testified at a budget hearing on Tuesday.

«They want the wealthy, and folks who, for example, have done huge amounts of advertising against me, such as some of the hedge fund folks, to have all the freedom in the world, to not disclose and spend anything they want,» he said, noting that the Campaign for One New York revealed who supplied its funding, though it often provided incomplete information.

Ed Miliband, you'll remember, said last week that the current set - up, by which wealthy pensioners receive benefits such as Winter Fuel Allowance and free TV licences, «needs to be looked at» — before his party's spokespeople swarmed out to reassure folk that no decisions had yet been made, that their leader didn't like the idea of means - testing, etc, etc..

And secondly, it's almost entirely only done in white folks — wealthy white folks with health insurance — private health insurance and that's a huge issue here in San Diego where fifty seven percent of our patients are Hispanic - Latino.

But in a recent 4.3 - year analysis of 18,991 men and women over 35, it was found that while a Mediterranean diet could lower cardiovascular disease risk, only wealthier, more educated folks got those benefits.

Mummies of wealthy people that lived 5000 years ago were found with heart disease and other issues because they did not consume the better daily diet of the common folks....

Goodwill Hunting very much stands at the intersection of the Bay State, in between its gritty old town feel and working class folks — and the more educated, often more phony, newer, wealthier types and hipper, Brahman locations.

The mayor agreed with host Ebro Darden that «a lot» of charter schools are funded by big business: «Oh yeah, a lot of them are funded by very wealthy Wall Street folks and others.»

Moreover, its board of directors is filled with, well, very wealthy Wall Street folks, including a managing director of Goldman Sachs.

While folks with condescending «pull yourself up by the bootstraps» attitudes love the idea of a neighborhood public school system, they most often use this system when they can afford to move their families to the suburbs and wealthier, gentrified city enclaves.

It seems that the customer base I see in Chevy land aren't as wealthy as those Vee Dub folks, and tend to be more likely to opt out of the long term benefits (i e 12 month warranty) to get out of the shop cheaper.

In 1956 if you were tremendously wealthy, say like Caroline Foulke, granddaughter of the co-founder of the American Tobacco Co., you could ask the folks at Mercedes - Benz to modify a 300C sedan into a station wagon because that's what you wanted.

WILLOWS, California — Wealthy folk sometimes make it seem as though having cartoonish piles of money is such a bore.

And a convoluted tale it is, involving the country's wealth of natural resources (coal, iron, copper and water for powering machines and transporting goods), the comparatively high literacy rate that enabled common folk to educate themselves in science and technology, a patent system that protected the rights of inventors and gave them economic incentive to both create and refine devices, and a population large and wealthy enough to form a profitable market for products the new industries turned out.

Although most of the close - knit town folk doubt that Crow, the clean - cut scion of the wealthy sawmill owner, had any part in the brutal attack, the traumatized Sophie can't recall and he's charged with the crime.

I've often dealt with this same objection in the world of estate planning documents and the response here is the same... less wealthy folks are arguably more impacted by poor planning (legally or financially) than are the wealthiest individuals.

Doesn't it make perfect sense for less wealthy folks to adopt a strategy that has been proven protect and grow the wealth of the wealthiest individuals and corporations?

Generally, savvy wealthy folks are not interested in losing money and that is the power of whole life insurance and particularly dividend paying mutual whole life insurance.

These techniques are commonly used by tax experts and wealthy individuals, but many of the concepts work for regular folks, too.

It was a companion dog to the wealthy folk of Europe.

Wealthy folk, in search of ways to spend time, started kennel clubs and tracked dog breeding lines just as horse trainers did for race horses.

If «we» are the wealthy folks who are focused on winning the game of putting the most zeros on the computers that keep score (so the folks in the future who share your mitochondrial DNA or y - chromosome — but you'll never meet can live like royalty and be nonproductive leeches) then the erasure of all those zeros that represent fossil «reserves» represents a sacrifice of damn near everything «we» value.

Not surprisingly, the customers (whose names are not being released) are all in Southern California, where there are a decent number of hydrogen fueling stations and lots of wealthy green - thinking folk.

However, you state this new «Clarity» is on lease to Southern California, «where there are a decent number of hydrogen fueling stations and lots of wealthy green - thinking folk».

He spoke of the wealthy tycoons dedicating their life, work and investments to environmental causes, business folks from Esprit to Burt's Bees, the Center for Biological Diversity and a Florida schoolteacher who saved sea turtles from extinction.

can't help but see a down side for regular folk good weather time slots go up in price less able to pay are reduced to the bad weather weekends:) seriously, everything nowadays has curious end result being of most benefit to the top ** seems to be a trend despite good intentions super computer output puts out mostly for the super wealthy

Doesn't it make perfect sense for less wealthy folks to adopt a strategy that has been proven protect and grow the wealth of the wealthiest individuals and corporations?

I've often dealt with this same objection in the world of estate planning documents and the response here is the same... less wealthy folks are arguably more impacted by poor planning (legally or financially) than are the wealthiest individuals.

Generally, savvy wealthy folks are not interested in losing money and that is the power of whole life insurance and particularly dividend paying mutual whole life insurance.

With the exception of people wealthy enough to cover themselves for any loss (and even those folks can benefit from coverage), homeowners insurance is a foregone conclusion for property owners.

The 40 % that do 60 % of the transactions encompass the part - timers, those recently retired from their primary jobs and those lucky folks who do not have to rely on Realtor incomes (they're wealthy) who like the logistics of the job.

North of 64, east of 65 is where all the wealthy folks live (Oldham County) prices are high though.