A hesitant approach to tax increases has resulted in a society which, as Ashley points out, "prefers spending cuts to higher taxes", because the better-off assume that cuts will not be aimed at them.
You are better off to assume that no one cares about these things except yourself.
Were they really better off as the White House assumed or were they also a part of the middle class?
I have no idea if I would personally be better off in such a world, assuming that it's even meaningful to talk about my existing there at all.
To equate the forces that push the low-income single mother in and out of the workforce with the survey-imposed suggestion that children could be "better off" with their mothers at home — assuming, presumably, that food and shelter are still available to those children — requires a somewhat bewildering conjugation of two distinct trends.
Both groups believed that poor oral health has implications for the life course, but better off parents assumed that preventive oral health behavior will directly result in healthier children now and in the future.
The use of expanded income means that people are assumed to be better off than they think they are, as they try to find themselves in a given distribution table to see how a proposed tax change would affect them.
Individuals who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer (LGBTQ) and Asian American or Pacific Islander (AAPI) are therefore often assumed to be better off, experiencing the best of both worlds.
"He's better off," said Mr. Capsouto, who, like Mr. Canizares, assumed she was a he.
The young know better than to assume that they will be better off than their parents; the old cling to the railing, fearful of falling beyond the reach of pensions and Social Security payments.
