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Numerous reputable independent analysts, including Bloomberg Businessweek, the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center and Bruce Bartlett, a senior economic advisor to Ronald Reagan, have concluded that Cain's "9-9-9" economic plan will tax the rich less while taxing the poor and middle-classes substantially more.
Obery M. Hendricks, Jr., Ph.D.: The Real and Present Danger of Herman Cain Obery M. Hendricks 2011
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Numerous reputable independent analysts, including Bloomberg Businessweek, the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center and Bruce Bartlett, a senior economic advisor to Ronald Reagan, have concluded that Cain's "9-9-9" economic plan will tax the rich less while taxing the poor and middle-classes substantially more.
Obery M. Hendricks, Jr., Ph.D.: The Real and Present Danger of Herman Cain Obery M. Hendricks 2011
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Idiot (since you like to start off by name-calling) – what part of “leave the tax rate cuts for the lower - and middle-classes in place because we need to spend our way out of this recession” does your pea-sized brain not understand?
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Numerous reputable independent analysts, including Bloomberg Businessweek, the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center and Bruce Bartlett, a senior economic advisor to Ronald Reagan, have concluded that Cain's "9-9-9" economic plan will tax the rich less while taxing the poor and middle-classes substantially more.
Obery M. Hendricks, Jr., Ph.D.: The Real and Present Danger of Herman Cain Obery M. Hendricks 2011
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And though I haven't the stats to back it up, I suspect they outnumber the 'middle-classes' pursuing theuir careers.
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The contradiction between the public belief and private self-interest of the left-inclined middle-classes has always been a favourite coconut shy, sometimes justifiably.
Journalists in glass houses target Ed Miliband Ian Jack 2010
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Mr. Medvedev has tried to position himself as the representative of the educated middle-classes, and made a speech in April that outlined a bold course for modernizing the economy and reducing the role of the state within it.
Why Are They Leaving? Julian Evans 2011
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Mr. Medvedev has tried to position himself as the representative of the educated middle-classes, and made a speech in April that outlined a bold course for modernizing the economy and reducing the role of the state within it.
Why Are They Leaving? Julian Evans 2011
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The Tory middle-classes' view that it in some way confers special rights on them contra the rest of the country is one of the more interesting socio-political phenomena or do I mean socio-pathological phenomena! of our times.
100 days in, Mr Miliband, you need a plan | Observer editorial 2011
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Conservative lower- and middle-classes make up majorities that, for decades, were shut out of the establishment.
Arab Democracy Is the Best Bet for a Muslim Reformation 2012
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