Sentences with phrase «richest people in the country»

Forbes reports that the last time Buffett wasn't the second - richest person in the country, Bezos had only been on the Forbes 400 list for three years.

«At the same time as they have these massive tax cuts for the richest people in the country they actually increase taxes for a lot of working and middle class people, and so I think they see the child tax credit as a way to try to address that,» Marr said.

And why drain the Treasury by «giving» or loaning the richest people in the country $ 2000 they don't need when they are already hoarding millions?

But allowing people to drive their tax rate down to 10 % when they're some of the richest people in the country?

Reports in some sections of the media in 2016, captured the former president as the 5th wealthiest person in Ghana in a list of 20 richest people in the country.

The shadow chancellor said the coalition government had given the «richest people in the country a huge tax cut» by scrapping the 50p top rate - something he said «can not be right».

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Created by former Buddhist monk Andy Puddicombe (pictured) and Rich Pierson, the app teaches meditation to more than nine million people in 190 countries.

We face an economy of «exclusion and inequality» in which «the hearts of many people are gripped by fear and desperation, even in the so - called rich countries,» wrote Pope Francis, Time Magazine's Person of the Year, in late November.

Yang, controlling shareholder of Country Garden, saw her fortune soar to $ 25.6 billion as of Jan. 5 to rank as the fifth - richest person in the nation, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

If the majority of people fall further and further behind — while others in society become unbelievably rich — the notion that the most important value in a country is its citizens having the ability to select their leaders will lose sway.

The 20 richest people in the United States are sprawled out across the country.

Reportedly one of the 400 richest people in China, the recycling magnate claims to be the No. 1 philanthropist in the country; Chen was reportedly worth $ 740 million in 2012, but he has pledged to give away most, if not all, of his wealth before his death, inspired by Bill Gates» «Giving Pledge.»

Those rates are relatively on - par with the rest of the world, yet Americans are ten times more likely to die at the barrel of a gun than people in other rich countries.

ICE is only getting into the country club now, but it has been one of the richest people in town for years.

I'd like to have a president who doesn't keep his money in Switzerland and the Cayman Islands.I'd like to have a president who knows more people are on food stamps today because tax cuts for the rich did not create jobs and caused this country to go down the drain.

Yet glimpses of the lifestyles of the rich and tasteless don't necessarily add up in people's minds to a clear picture of the tectonic shifts that have taken place in the distribution of income and wealth in this country.

Foodstocks are continuously piling up but so are the number of people without access to adequate food, those suffering from hunger and starvation, while in the meanwhile there has taken place a major decline in the quality of food available to the people, thanks to the excessive use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers, more so in the poorer countries as the more hazardous pesticides are banned in the rich countries and both exported to and dumped in the poor countries.

We should urgently instigate an inquiry into the resources held abroad by the rich citizens of the peripheral countries and the resultant expropriation, in certain cases, of these resources if they have been gained through means such as theft committed at the expense of the population of the peripheral countries (expropriated wealth should be returned to the people).

Barack knows what it means to be a black man to be living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich white people.

The coincidence of interests of the victims marginalized by the system in rich and poor countries may lead to a transnational solidarity of interests of workers, women, youth, peace workers and people's movements.

Sometimes people in developing countries think everyone in the U.S. is rich, white and happy.

Latest was explosions in India marked as «Islamic Jihadists» and another in Pakistan although I was surprised that it was not marked as «Hindu Jihadists»... That would have had both Great Countries confront each other serving the purpose of other competing nations over the Rich Indian Peninsular... Believe me no nation fall back unless people of her own are traitors to it's nations principals and beliefs for the reason of Hate, Envy, Revenge, or Greeds towards material wealth even if by selling their Dignity and integrity or their family, tribe, community, the nation and the country it wouldn't mean much to them... and those can be found among every level of the one Society...

The only guard against a «parade of horrors» — that is, the corruption, morally speaking, of famine efforts by hidden, alternative and immoral objectives — is for famine relief to be undertaken as a multilateral, globally communal effort involving the U.S., the U.S.S.R., the Peoples» Republic of China, the petroleum - rich countries in the Middle East, and many of the richer western European countries.

Communications and travel make people aware of the harm done to workers, women and children and to the environment — in rich countries as well as poor.

But it is also held that globalization has brought in its wake, great inequities, mass impoverishment and despair, that it has fractured society along the existing fault lines of class, gender and community, while almost irreversibly widening the gap between rich and poor nations, that it has caused the flow of currencies across international borders, which has been responsible for financial and economic crises in many countries and regions, including the current Asian financial crisis, that it has enriched a small minority of persons and corporations within nations and within the international system, marginalizing and violating the basic human rights of millions of workers, peasants and farmers and indigenous communities.

The fact is that people in countries whose wealth has greatly increased have not become happier as their nations have grown richer.

There the rich and the learned ones exchange ideas and learn about one another's country, life, and people; they learn of the needs in various parts of the Muslim world; they discover their friends and foes; and they are able to cooperate to solve their problems.

When neoliberalism was a marginal and depreciated current, in the course of the «50s and 60s, it appeared inconceivable in the dominant bourgeois circle of this period, to create an amount of unemployment of 40 million people in the rich countries without provoking social explosions.

When Fosdick informed Rockefeller that he did not want to be known as pastor to the richest man in the country, he found his comeuppance in Rockefeller's retort: «Do you think that more people will criticize you on account of my wealth than will criticize me on account of your theology?»

The pattern of economic growth in all the countries in Asia favours the rich and creates imbalances in the relationships between different sections of people.

Other priority demands supported by CADTM are: the expropriation of the wealth kept in the North by the rich of the South in order that it be given back to the people of the Third World; wealth tax; tax on financial transactions; rejection of the MAI and its clones; the right of peripheral countries to protectionism.

The US was NEVER for» all people being created equal», Even when that quote was written only rich white land - owning males could vote in this country... Women, African - Americans, Native Americans, and Indians were secluded from that... You need to read «the people's history of the united states» by howard zinn..

Today, in countries such as the United States, even through the majority of people consider themselves Christian, it is «the rich and famous» who are most admired and emulated.

wow... «She buys shoes like bread» — i am wondering why do we have homeless people in a rich country like USA... and there are a good percentage of Americans who can not afford to buy lunch for their kids in school and many more...

whatever the democratic party tells you is a lie do the opposite they would want you to go against republicans becuase our country is not a democracy its a republic people wake up the republican party isnt about the rich its about all of us lower taxes for all the republican party is about smaller government not intruding in your life the democrats know this and started a class war to make blacks and hispanics flood their cause im a 24 latino and switched republican last year i was fooled my whole life read history and you will see im telling the truth

Mostly poor West African nations may be responsible for the growth of cocoa, but it's mostly people in rich countries consuming it.

be it england german or france, cause the citizens of the famous european countries do nt have as much fire or will to fight as the immigrant of war countries / financially «handicapped» sub-countries like sanchez put it rightly, these spoiled kids of the rich countries have bee too long in their comfort zones, while the secondos are had to fight for a lot of things while a lot of the citizens helped them another side of the citizens (people like you) confronted them with racial views and ridicule..

however, the USA and other big and rich countries, spend billions and billions for diet hospitals... people with a lot, a lot of food in them....

He found that people eating non-processed foods and indigenous diets in many places around the world didn't have the health problems we experience in developed countries like the United States — and that those diets are particularly rich in fat and proteins from healthy animals and other real food sources.

Osinbajo said his feats within and outside the country, are a rich legacy, which will continue to live on in the hearts of the people.

«We have fought long and hard in this country to let minorities and women to be able to vote, poor people, rich people and we can't go backwards, we won't go backwards,» said Zellner.

Furthermore, in describing a country that is mired in poverty as a result of callous Government cuts, many Labour voices describe a world that does not ring true to C1 / C2 voters — people that are not poor but not rich and that carefully watch everything they spend.

Most of Russian investors, and rich people save money in dollar and outside of the country..

The event, instituted three years ago, is being organised to celebrate the rich culture and exhibit the creative talents in the country, with special focus on the Ga - Dangbe people and Homowo festival.

I was out this week talking to friends mate and people, and I said god this country in a mess, and a bloke said yes Manchester Unite are broke, another said we need a new rich owner, and you think people are worried about the economy most do not even know we are in trouble

However, the survey also revealed consistently more sympathetic attitudes to the HIV / AIDS pandemic in developing world countries than in the UK, for example, almost seven out of ten (69 %) agree that rich countries should ensure that drugs to treat HIV / AIDS are cheap and available to all people in poor countries.

In a sign of increasing tensions between Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition partners, Bernard Jenkin, the chair of the Commons public administration committee, said: «If the politics of envy made a country rich, we'd be very rich... Most rich people are contributing far more in tax than other people.&raquIn a sign of increasing tensions between Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition partners, Bernard Jenkin, the chair of the Commons public administration committee, said: «If the politics of envy made a country rich, we'd be very rich... Most rich people are contributing far more in tax than other people.&raquin tax than other people.»

Tell them your family and America's poor, disabled, children, and almost all elderly people living in nursing homes — America's moms and dads and grandparents — can't accept devastating cuts to Medicaid to pay for a tax cut for this country's richest.

If one of the filthy rich politicians actually thought about how much Aid we hand out to other countries and entitlements we hand out to the Illegal people that are in the country we would be not be in the problem we all have been put in by the filthy rich politicians that have absolutely no idea of whats really going on.