Word: riches
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...they have been asked to raise as a result of the "stress test" process. That leaves the more important issue of what it means when the financial distress of the wealthy and nearly wealthy begins to look like the money problems of everyone else. The country counts on the rich for a large portion of it tax receipts. The new budget assumes that upper income households will pay an even larger part of their earnings each year from now on. (See pictures of things money...
...fact the rich are now losing their homes is a signal that the real estate market has further to fall and that the projections for receipts to the IRS from individual taxpayers used to create the assumptions for the budget are wrong...
...illusions about the severe problems at the low and middle segments of the market. Real wages are not rising and unemployment may reach 10% this year. Most of the people out of work will be those who earned between $25,000 and $75,000 a year, not the rich. Most homeowners are just that - regular middle class workers. People living on relatively fixed incomes usually do not have the resources to cover their daily expenses for a long time if they lose their jobs or suffer a drop in their earnings. The one thing of value that they had, their...
...rich become poor, the federal budget will fall apart...
...Being too rich for foreclosure, but too poor for derivatives, I had begun to think the government would never craft a bailout for me. However, prodded by crafty old John Dingell of Michigan, dean of the House of Representatives, Uncle Sam has selected me to stimulate the economy by buying a new car. This program will...