Sentences with phrase «than poor people»

People with more money tend to be better organized and effective at protecting their interests than poor people, so designing a program to stick it to wealthy people is generally a bad idea.

A flat tax would make rich people pay a higher dollar amount than poor people, when rich people should spend that extra dollar at a store, which in turn creates a job!

As richer people were more likely to buy receivers than poorer people, that implicitly cost richer people more, even as a fee.

Markets, of course, give rich people a much greater say than poor people.

They use the system, they are smarter than poor people.

But he also notes another point that Pew has found: «Book reading has almost always been something that richer people do more than poorer people do.»

The rich try to act like the government is taking all of their money, but the fact of the matter is that most rich people pay less taxes proportionally than poor people do The problem is that rich people are cheating the system and trampling on the poor.

Leo Maasburg, an Austrian priest who was Mother Teresa's close personal friend and spiritual advisor and the author of a moving portrait of her, told me that the idea that Blessed Teresa loved poverty rather than poor people was «a diabolical twisting» of her actual beliefs, which were «to help the poor and suffering to the utmost.»

Whether it is because he wants to shrink government, or thinks that giving charity is his Christian duty, or even thinks that giving charity is a good way to make rich people feel better than poor people, giving charity is a good thing.

He demonstrates, as is generally found, that with voluntary voting only, wealthy people are more likely to vote than poorer people, which could distort the representation of interests by electoral institutions.

Simple patterns emerged — for instance that wealthier people tended to make more calls than poorer people.

«It turns out rich people have more air conditioners and more cars than poor people, so energy subsidy benefits may not be as distributional as we thought they were.»

So the fact that a wealthier person has the ability to pay off a certain dollar amount more easily than a poorer person would be discriminatory on algorithm calculation.

Sufficiently wealthy people can thrive in any climate and are better protected against all extreme weather events than poor people.

An important corollary of this basic lesson is that people with more money tend to be better organized and effective at protecting their interests than poor people.

The government pension plan is funded via taxes and pays out a means tested amount, so well to do people get less (possibly nothing) than poor people do.

As a result, they seem to donate less of their time and money, proportionally, than poorer people.