Merchants in Tennessee are by law required to pay taxes on the amount of their stock on hand, and a privilege tax besides.
While attending Yale, he came to believe that "the Christian Gospel is to be taken seriously, and that needless poverty and suffering on the one hand and special privilege and inordinate power on the other are entirely contrary to its precepts".
As a Jew, I cannot forget both the oppression that Jews have experienced throughout so much of our history, on the one hand, and the privileges we have received since being embraced as white, on the other hand.
In the family pecking order, the dominant female of the household was the mother-in-law, who was free to hand out orders and privileges to the wives of her sons.
The truth is that we are fighting to maintain a functioning democracy in which all the levers of power do not rest in the hands of those commanding wealth and privilege.
Rachel Sylvester, a dependably insightful Times columnist, recently wrote of the inner circle's "toe-curlingly patronising" attitude to such ministers as Eric Pickles and Sayeeda Warsi, both of whom embody a Conservatism reflective of working-class aspiration, rather than the expectation of power and privilege being handed from one moneyed generation to the next.
He is of a different class — a theatrical artist of sorts, with an excess of time and privilege on his hands.
Since giving money to your kids is just another example of free exchange, there's nothing wrong with the accumulation of wealth and privilege in the hands of the few.
Later in the debate, Creasy added: "Education too often drives outcomes, and money and privilege have a big hand in that and many members today have already set out how. "That isn't just about academic talent, it's about creative talent as well, where the same patterns are clear in acting, in sport, with the possible exception of music.
He writes about people who try to cross the lines, including his own parents: "They were torn between their values on the one hand and the benefits of their privilege on the other".
