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...gallon, the benefits of the gasoline subsidy, as well as subsidies for cooking gas and electricity, were overwhelmingly going to wealthier Iranians, simply because they spent more on consumption. In 2005, the World Bank estimated that 94% of Iran's energy subsidies in urban areas were benefiting the nonpoor. In other words, those who least needed their consumption subsidized were getting most of the benefits. In the run-up to the 2005 presidential elections, all the candidates across the political spectrum, including the subsequent winner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, promised to implement a reform of the gasoline subsidy program...
...Simple: with a direct government subsidy. Instead of ordering employers to give their workers an extra 90' an hour, the Treasury gives it. This approach would not cost the job of a single minimum-wage worker. And it would enrich the poorest workers with tax money taken from the nonpoor: middle-class and rich taxpayers...
...Lehman Bros. Kuhn Loeb investment house, said that by limiting Social Security COLAs to 2%, the summiteers could have saved the Government $150 billion by the year 2000. "It would have meant $3 a week less" for Social Security recipients, said Peterson. "I don't believe that millions of nonpoor elderly, with pensions and all the other things, would have objected to that difference." But Ronald Reagan set the tone at the outset by announcing that everything except Social Security would be on the table. "When we talk about it in those meetings, we don't say 'Social Security,' " Senator...
Among the social functions performed by poverty, says Gans, is the guarantee of status to the nonpoor. The working class needs the poor to look down on; the aristocracy, by busying itself with settlement houses and charity balls, justifies its existence and proves its superiority to workers who grub for money. Beyond that, the poor "offer vicarious participation to the rest of the population in the uninhibited sexual, alcoholic and narcotic behavior in which they are alleged to participate." They have a cultural role too: Americans have taken over much music that was born in the slums, and poetry...
THEN, TOO, the state must worry about 200,000 families still living in inadequate housing. Bernard Friedan and John Meyer claim that the housing program has that "special relevance" sought so earnestly for the middle class. Both the poor and nonpoor suffer from short supply and face a continuous market- continuous in the sense that it has been unresponsive to the needs of almost everyone. Real improvement for the poor, the liberals can say, will mean real improvement for moderate income families. But to glue this housing coalition together so that both groups benefit will put a higher price...
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