Word: well-off
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...argument that is used to support this system is that you need to bribe the well-off so that they will support the poor. Translated, what that's saying is everybody better get on the wagon getting subsidies from the Federal Government. But the awkward question that leaves is if everybody is on the wagon, then who pulls it? So I think the single most egregious thing is the idea that in a time of profound fiscal stress in this country, we've got billions and billions of dollars going to well-off people under the guise of universal entitlements...
...should have a firm principle that the relatively well-off should receive zero subsidies, not what's left after you pay taxes, but zero. I say that when a person hits somewhere between $40,000 and $100,000 dollars a year in retirement, if he's got back his contributions plus interest, I'd tax it 100% because the relatively well-off should get no subsidies or welfare at a time like this...
...disability from the government for problems arising from his alcoholism, washes up every night at a Santa Monica church (where he sleeps on the doorstep), and keeps his possessions -- photo albums, letters and graduation certificates -- neatly tucked away inside a black vinyl tote bag. The adopted son of a well-off Washington family, Brown says he attended a military academy in Virginia, spent a semester in college and then joined the Navy and later became a signalman. But when the family finances collapsed through mismanagement, he took to the streets...
Kampuchea is quiet. Everywhere. In Kep, a small seaside resort near the Vietnamese border, the ruins of churches, schools and villas rise from encroaching jungle. The narrow road leading into the town, once a weekend retreat for Phnom Penh's well-off, is choked with underbrush. Here and there on the nearly deserted beach, small groups picnic -- families, a gathering of friends. A song of the '60s drifts from a tape recorder, bringing with it the memory of better times...
...managers -- who, during the day, mix easily with whites. It also has a huge black underclass reflected in a poverty rate that is the second highest of any American core city. When I lived in Atlanta, at the height of the struggle, the interests of poor black people and well-off black people seemed identical. To some extent, their interests still coincide. But a poor black person living in a crumbling slum may have good reason to feel that triumphs of well-off black people have nothing to do with his life. The well- off black people, after all, have...