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Yet there is ample evidence that the benefits of such tax cuts accrue disproportionately to the rich, largely via companies buying back stock and shareholders earning higher dividends.
All inputs needed to feed each additional person will, on average, come from scarcer, poorer, and more distant sources, disproportionately more energy will be used, and disproportionately more greenhouse gases will be generated.
Though being overweight or obese is often perceived as accompanying wealth, the problem has disproportionately affected lower-income communities.
What’s more, investment in TB disproportionately helps the world’s poorest people.
Moreover, existing trade arrangements should be modernized as needed, so that they better reflect current and future realities, while companies and others that benefit disproportionately from trade should intensify their pursuit of socially responsible activities.
For example, the bill imposes an across-the-board limit on mortgage deductions, which will have a disproportionately adverse effect on people living in high-cost Democratic strongholds such as New York and California.
Though the disease can strike anyone, it disproportionately afflicts marginalized and vulnerable populations in places like refugee camps, slums, and prisons.
To balance the benefits of scale and scope with the socialized losses to taxpayers, firms deemed too big to fail should be required to have more capital, and the amount should rise disproportionately with size.
Like many liberals, the Times’ editors worried that higher energy taxes would fall disproportionately on the poor.
In the US, that pressure was a driving force behind Trump’s election (though it was often and disproportionately blamed on immigrants and developing-country exporters, including China).
But Germany and others object in principle to discriminating against EU citizens, and countries such as Poland and the Czech Republic are vehemently opposed to measures that would disproportionately harm their citizens.
“We must also be careful,” he cautioned, “that the defense budget is not disproportionately used to support the British defense industry.”
But increased trade can also eliminate low-skill factory jobs and reduce agricultural prices – outcomes that disproportionately hurt the poor.
And many cost-cutting measures worldwide disproportionately affect the poor.
In 2016, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe published research showing that women working in the media were internationally and disproportionately targeted by gendered threats, noting that the abuse had “a direct impact on their safety and future online activities.”
And Africans are already disproportionately exposed to the adverse effects of climate change, even though they are collectively responsible for less than 4% of global greenhouse-gas emissions.
The racial inequality that the government had mostly eradicated seems to be increasing again, especially since private-sector tourism jobs, the main source of private income, seem to go disproportionately to white people.
As the Vatican has pointed out, the poor are disproportionately affected by the consequences of climate change; for example, some of our activities threaten to undermine food production in the drier – and poorer – areas of the world.
Given that the EU was already viewed as a project that benefited elites disproportionately, maybe even exclusively, this is not surprising.
But, without reform of the “rigged” system, it is likely that Trump’s proposed fiscal expansion will again disproportionately benefit the wealthy, without “trickling down” to the rest of Americans.
Unnecessarily strict data rules will hurt European companies disproportionately.
The farmers planting the conventional varieties benefit disproportionately, because they do not have to buy the more expensive GM seeds.
Low-trust societies participate disproportionately less in international commerce, and attract less investment.
Similarly, while the world will be better off when the last coal mine is closed, many people will suffer disproportionately in the process.
Japan developed the economic-growth model that other Asian countries later emulated so successfully; actively contributed to global economic development; participated in the United Nations and other multilateral institutions (including paying a disproportionately high percentage of UN costs); and has helped to set a global standard for environmental protection and sustainable development.
That growth will happen disproportionately in the Muslim world, including the Middle East and the Sahel.
And the overall burden, including unemployment, would almost surely fall disproportionately on the poor, a fact that populists who believe that debt is a free lunch conveniently ignore.
The cost of this choice is disproportionately high for Africa’s women.
Both Sanders and Francis link environmental degradation to unbridled capitalism, emphasizing that the world’s poorest suffer disproportionately from the environmental impact of activities that often enrich the world’s wealthiest.
Already radically different levels of education, resource endowment and skilled labor mean that, with WTO entry, the already privileged coastal areas of China will continue to advance disproportionately over more backward inland areas.
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