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Ms. Buffett runs an organization, the Sunshine Lady Foundation, that helps the needy pay for college, medical expenses, mortgages, glasses and cars.
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"Money that was supposed to go to the sick and needy paid for their beach vacations, thousands and thousands of dollars for flowers and spa treatments," Ms. Pokorny said.
In 2013, 1.25 million euros was disbursed, most to help needy Italians pay for rent or utilities.
Consumer subsidies include the Low-Income Energy Assistance Program to help needy residents pay their energy bills, fuel tax exemptions for farmers (one of the biggest single subsidies at nearly $1 billion in 2009), and a tax credit for investing in power generation projects that use "clean coal" technologies.
Over the past decade and a half, Ivanishvili has been dispensing gifts not only to cultural elites like Tavadze, but to the needy, too, paying for health care for poor children and subsidizing the meager pensions of the elderly and disabled.
The Neediest Cases paid her first month's rent, and Catholic Charities provided furnishings.
Before its "settlement" of the nation-wide electricity-supply workers strike, there had been a marked sagging in the Heath Gov't.'s popularity since the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in his Oct. minibudget administered the first sharp dose of the Conservative prescription for making all but the very neediest start paying more for services formerly provided, or partly so, by the state.
Public assistance got him a small apartment in a single-room-occupancy hotel and a $500 grant from the Neediest Cases paid for the necessities that will help him make a life there: pots, pans, dishes, silverware, bedding and a vacuum cleaner.
The state has ended a day-old program that required pharmacists to decide whether poor and medically needy patients should pay a fee for prescriptions that had been free.
Also on Sunday, Prime Minister Olmert agreed to pay needy Holocaust survivors in Israel who came out of the camps and ghettos an average monthly stipend of about $279, up from a $20 stipend proposed two weeks ago, which the survivor groups had rejected.
Furthermore, agents of the state violate the rights of citizens when they force, or threaten to force, individuals to transfer their legitimately held wealth to the state in order to bail out large companies, provide for pensions, to help the needy, or to pay for public goods (e.g., parks or roads).
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