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...actually discriminate against fat people, or do fat people lack the spark and drive to achieve the $25,000-to-$40,000 earnings bracket, just as they lack the self-discipline to keep their body in the proper weight bracket...
Poor people have had difficulty going to medical school in this country. In 1960-63, one-third of medical students came from the top 3 per cent economic bracket, whereas only 12 per cent came from the lowest half of the population. It goes without saying that that half contains more whites than people of color, though because of racial discrimination, the latter constitute a disproportionate fraction of the poor and near-poor...
...unforbidden social prejudice: against the fat. Half-5 ft. 10 in. and 150 Ibs.-surveyed 15,000 executives across the nation and discovered that of those earning $25,000 to $45,000 per year, only 9% were more than 10 Ibs. overweight. In the $10,000 to $20,000 bracket, however, fully 40% were. Half s conclusion: the fat executive is being grossly underpaid and underpromoted. "You should hire on the basis of competency," he urges...
...total income. That is well below not only the charitable practice of tithing (giving 10%) advocated in the Old Testament, but also the current rate among the President's financial peers. According to the most recent statistics of the Internal Revenue Service, others in Nixon's tax bracket made charitable cash donations averaging nearly $11,000 each...
According to a Brookings Institution study frequently cited in this book -an up-to-date and nontechnical work for the general reader-a family with an annual income of $200,000 to $500,000 in 1972 (IRS tax bracket: 50% to 70%) actually paid only 29.6% of it to the Treasury. That is about the same rate that a single person antes up on an income...