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The purpose of torture is not getting information. It's spreading fear. ”
I think the purpose of the writer is to help us see. The writer is someone who can perhaps have the joy of helping others see. ”
Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon. ”
One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career. ”
My God, I don't know anyone who likes to accumulate their wealth more than the Europeans. ”
Italy and France could lop off their excessive wealth through a one-time tax on private wealth. ”
With less competition to fear, companies are emboldened to raise their mark-ups and profits. That lifts share prices and thus the wealth of already wealthy shareholders. ”
Egalitarians' who complain about inequality view the wealth of the wealthiest as bad in itself: it disfigures society. They would enact a wealth tax to extirpate the offending wealth. ”
In Greece, Italy and, to a lesser extent, France, unsustainable tax cuts and spending sprees added to households' estimates of their private wealth relative to their wage income. ”
Democrats and Republicans have been very keen to make home ownership almost a national purpose. ”