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No country can take a pass on the war against the Islamic State, especially a wealthy regional power whose own traditions have helped to inspire the radicalism that drives it.
In the United States, Trump has convinced many of his lower-income supporters that his tax plan will benefit them, not just his wealthy cohorts.
From asset bubbles and excess leverage to currency suppression and productivity impairment, Japan’s experience – with lost decades now stretching to a quarter-century – is testament to all that can go wrong in large and wealthy economies.
On the one hand, he has introduced a flat income tax that favors the wealthy and a child tax credit that benefits only higher-income households; on the other hand, like Putin, he maintains a coterie of “friendly” oligarchs who help shore up his power, not least by controlling the Hungarian media.
As for the other nine months, given that the US accounts for only 25% of world income, it is a fair guess that there are some very wealthy individuals elsewhere who might be able to kick in.
Places like the United Kingdom actively court wealthy foreign nationals through extraordinary preferential treatment of their investment income.
It signaled that America’s new president was less interested in using government to solve society’s problems than he was in cutting taxes, mainly for the benefit of the wealthy.
Billed as a “free-market” revolution, because it promised to reduce the role of government, in practice it was the beginning of an assault on the middle class and the poor by wealthy special interests.
These wealthy groups and individuals gave billions of dollars to the candidates in the recent election campaign, and they expect their contributions to yield benefits.
While Buffett’s prescription of higher taxes for America’s wealthy is entirely desirable, will Obama realize that a genius in one area may be a dunce in another?
Its conservative philosophy has consistently failed to produce economic growth, and the benefits of what growth has occurred have disproportionately gone to the wealthy.
As American society ages and domestic inequality worsens, and assuming that interest rates on the national debt eventually rise, taxes will need to go up, urgently on the wealthy but some day on the middle class.
It is not particularly easy for a national economy to be both big and also very wealthy.
Over the next few decades, Africa is expected to record the fastest growth in the number of wealthy individuals.
These benefactors, together with private enterprises and the public sector, will be essential to ensuring that all young Africans – not just those from wealthy families – gain access to quality education.
In poor countries, by contrast, powerful vested interests often resist higher taxes on the wealthy, and widespread poverty makes it difficult to impose universal consumption taxes on the poor.
In a bleak economic climate, the argument goes, the only winners have been the wealthy, resulting in skyrocketing inequality.
India’s wealthy, who are less reliant on cash and are more likely to hold credit cards, are relatively unaffected.
By contrast, Trump advocates lower taxes for the wealthy, and seems willing to embrace some form of state capitalism – if not crony capitalism – via protectionist policies and special incentives for companies to manufacture in the US.
One rainy night, Baba Amte, the son of a wealthy Indian landowner, encountered a dying leper.
Hoag and Badeau were not at all wealthy, but they ended up with a family of 20 adopted children, as well as their two biological children.
At the end of last year, around 540 million people around the world could count themselves among the global wealthy, with net assets above €42,000.
Those policies pushed up prices of assets – especially bonds and equities – that were held largely by wealthy households.
In wealthy countries, HPV vaccines are often priced at more than $100 per dose.
Dorje Tashi, the wealthy owner of the Yak, a leading tourist hotel in Lhasa, is also said to be languishing in prison on vague political charges.
Ultimately, hyper-human genetic enhancements will become feasible, too, and the economic and social advantages that wealthy countries maintain could be expanded into a genetic advantage.
The divide between wealthy and poor nations could widen further with each generation until a common humankind no longer exists.
Reports that just 158 wealthy donors provided half of all campaign contributions in the first phase of the 2016 US presidential election cycle highlight the worry that income inequality can lead to political inequality.
Indeed, when asked the question, “Do you think the US economic system generally favors the wealthy or is fair to most Americans?” a whopping 71% – including a majority of Republicans – said that the system favors the wealthy.
When Americans are asked specifically about taxes, the same message emerges; a majority of voters (62%) believe that the US tax system favors the wealthy.
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