Sentence examples for poor paid from inspiring English sources

The poor paid in, and got nothing back.

The compensation money was drawn largely from consumption taxes, as income tax didn't exist at the time, which effectively meant the poor paid for it.

In December, they agreed to an ambitious plan to provide health insurance to the working poor, paid for by doubling the cigarette tax.

Because of that, Medicaid, the joint federal-state health insurance program for the poor, paid "at least tens of millions of dollars" in benefits that it should not have, the lawsuit said.

"While the city's elite — its stock brokers and bankers and lawyers, its writers and filmmakers — largely managed to insulate themselves from the destruction, Bombay's poor paid a heavy price," he wrote.

On today's right, not only is civic virtue, nay patriotism, associated with narrow defense of your own self-interest, any deviation from that standard — like being an affluent person who nonetheless supports aid to the poor paid for by progressive taxation — is considered prima facie hypocritical.

The REF subsidises the poor, pays for the subsidies, and equalises the risks to insurers, all at once.

Some states contribute their own money or divert federal money intended to help the poor pay their energy bills.

But rich and poor pay the same sales tax rate.

Why are the ultra poor paying at the same rate as the ultra rich?

If the quality of evidence is poor, paying attention to other quality domains in the development of guidelines will not result in higher quality scores.