Sentences with phrase «whether rich pay»

If you asked the average voter whether the rich paid their fair share of tax they'd probably say no.

Not exact matches

«Whether they made their money lobbying lawmakers at the Capitol or cashed in on a tech IPO, rich millennials are clustered in cities where there are lots of high - paying professional jobs,» reads a post today on Zillow's Porchlight blog.

Rich Uncles» business model is an investor's dream in the sense that, unlike brokers who get paid commission whether they make you money or not, Rich Uncles is incentivized to make money for you.

«Whether it is unaffordable housing, cuts to school classrooms, leaving seniors to suffer in understaffed care homes, long waits for basic healthcare, the lack of family doctors, or hallway medicine — ordinary individuals and families have paid the price for Christy Clark's tax cuts to the rich,» said Horgan.

Rich Barton is very similar in his ability to know whether (1) the customer's problem is real and significant enough that they will pay for the solution, the market is big, and that there is a business model with a potential moat.

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

Arsenal are the fifth richest club in the world according to the latest Forbes release, of course Arsenal can pay his wages, whether Kroenke wants to put Arsenal money into Arsenal, rather than another ranch is another matter....

(Note: No one is asking the rich to pay 100 % of their income over a certain level, but this question is about whether the budget deficit is theoretically addressable without major spending cuts).

«In an era when the rich just get richer while the poor seem to fall through the cracks, we need to come together and speak out for change — whether it's smaller class sizes, training for educators, fair pay and benefits, health care or safer work environments.»

Or will they wonder whether they're paying high fees because the legal service is worth it, or simply to make shareholders rich?