Sentence examples for class burdens from inspiring English sources

On one side, there are all the complaints about the terrible tax burden on middle class Americans — complaints that rely heavily on including payroll taxes, because that aside, middle class burdens are actually quite light.

The personal income tax cuts are reminiscent of the Howard era tendency to slash the upper-middle class tax burden, and the opposition is already on the record suggesting the corporate tax rate should be reduced to 25%.

A nation held hostage by the failings of its political class and burdened by many years of irrational spending has invested its hopes in a former vice president of the European Central Bank and longtime governor of Greece's central bank.

Sen. Clinton has talked about alleviating the middle class' tax burden and the toll from globalization on our factory workers.

But the word can also be used to mean anything that relieves the middle class tax burden, and which therefore might be sacrificed to protect low tax rates for the wealthy.

"Thank you," she said when Mr. Kerry promised to ease the middle-class tax burden.

Working-class women burdened with children associated birth control with hope and possibility, not with social engineering.

On the contrary, private expenditures are the highest among the EU countries, and this means that the income, in all socio-economic classes, is burdened for the use of health services.

Indispensably supported by Miguel Ioan Littin's exquisite photography, Mr. Wood has created a poignant portrait of an artist unable to escape the stamp of her class or the burdens of aging.

Closing tax loopholes for corporations sheltering profits overseas, eliminating subsidies for oil, gas and coal industries, and taxing hedge fund managers' income as income instead of capital gains are other proposals out of many that could increase federal revenues by billions a year without burdening middle-class Americans.

"The rich pay less, the poor pay nothing, and the middle class bears the burden".