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...self-employed, or whose income derives from investments or partnerships—who tend to be wealthier than average—face no such scrutiny. The IRS, which has been kept on a shoestring budget for several years now, can only review one of every 400 partnerships. Well-off tax evaders have virtually no chance of getting caught...
...them was from New Jersey and another [Ashley] from Park Avenue in New York City. I remember thinking, ‘One of them is rich!’ It’s not like I thought I was going to hate her. I just realized she was well...
...We’re not bankrupt, but we’re not well-off,” Kedem said...
...machine, a wonder in its day, has run down. Even the best machines - especially the best machines - need regular re-engineering: parts that hummed along in one era get jettisoned in the next. Japan is loath to do that kind of tinkering. Throughout the '90s, with most voters comfortably well-off and complacent, leaders were able to subvert the kind of creative destruction that could have reinvigorated Japan's economic infrastructure. As a result, no entrepreneurial phoenix is rising from Japan's industrial ashes. Real-estate values are at 1982 levels. Manufacturing has been siphoned off to China and other...
...alleged crime amounts to two well-off kids stealing from a bunch of other well-off kids, with neglible harm done. Fascinating though they are, I don’t appreciate reading quotations from final club and sorority spokespersons in articles seeking to track the progress of thousands of dollars from one elitist social club to another. The fact of these transfers’ illegality is certainly interesting, but hardly of dire importance to anyone besides said spokespersons. How absolutely horrifying that the Pudding may have unwittingly helped to sponsor a Theta-Delphic mixer! Is there really nothing better...