In the US, class war still means just one thing: the rich attacking the poor
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Comment is free: Gary Younge:  The Democrats need to represent the swelling ranks of have-nots as vigorously as Bush has stuck up for the haves.
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By now, most people have at least heard of the AMT, but those who still think of it as what it was intended to be -- a special tax to make sure rich people pay at least something to the government -- are badly out of date.
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LISBON, Jan 8  (IPS) - The gap between rich and poor is still widening in  Portugal, the country with the greatest social disparity in the  European Union. Despite having a socialist government in office  for nearly three years, there has been no reversal of this trend.
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An election next year for the mayor of  London is shaping up to be an unusually brutal battle that  exposes one of the country&#39;s deepest social divisions: class.
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House Democrats' promise to permanently protect millions of middle-class families from a mostly unknown tax increase is faltering before it's even unveiled.
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Rep. Gary Miller grew up poor. Even though he's now worth more than $13 million, he says he's still worried about his family's financial security.
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Resolved: The US government should fund primary and secondary education in the United States. In the early 1970s, high school debating teams sparred on this issue, and James M. Poterba, then a member of the debating team at Pennsbury High School in Fairless Hills, Pa., started thinking about tax policy and its impact.
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Â· Jocular approach attacked as living costs spiralÂ·  Rising prices hurting the poor, say fundamentalists
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The three richest people in the world have one thing in common.
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It is now official: The rich are getting richer and the poor poorer. Last week&#39;s Congressional Budget Office tax-burden study confirms what the eye can see: John Edwards&#39; &quot;two Americas&quot; continues to grow.
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A last minute scramble by U.S. lawmakers to prevent millions of unsuspecting middle income families from being hit with a tax for the very rich shows just how broken the U.S. tax code has become.
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All the money in the world can't convince these wealthy dynasties to get along.
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The New Republic's website is currently carrying an interesting piece which tries to explain the anomaly that although the US economy is growing, a lot of its citizens are still feeling worse off. The article explains the results of a 40 year panel study which has shown that although mean incomes have increased, income variability has increased massively, causing many Americans to feel less well off, despite the growing economy.
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Huge gifts to charity from U.S. billionaire Warren Buffett and others have won widespread praise, but some say the same economic process that helped earn those fortunes is leaving billions more in dire poverty.
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Almost a year after vowing to protect millions of middle-income families from a special tax meant for millionaires, Democratic leaders are still struggling to find ways to raise the billions of dollars needed to fix the problem.
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NEW YORK, June 26 -- Warren E. Buffett was his usual folksy self Tuesday night at a fundraiser for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) as he slammed a system that  allows the very rich to pay taxes at a lower rate than the middle class.
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Poverty leads to violence, the leaders of France and Brazil warned Monday in urging other nations to find ways to narrow the gap between rich and poor and help the more than 1 billion people who live on less than $1 per day.