That means across-the-board reductions in every facet of military spending other than overseas contingencies and personnel outlays, a chaotic process in which waste would be maximized by the uniformity with which the rate of reduction is applied.
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If you calculate the rate of poverty reduction for each unit of GDP growth per person, Brazil did even better than China: the ratio is 4.3 for Brazil, 0.8 for China and 0.4 for India (0.8 if you use the adjusted consumption figures).
This implies that the long-term rate of poverty reduction slightly over one percentage point a year continued unabated in 2008-10, despite the dual crisis.
Ryan could have leveled with voters, cautioning that the amount of rate reduction will depend on the amount of base expansion and that you would need to massively expand the tax base to get the top rate as low as 25.
Taking nothing away from the incentive and revenue effects of tax-rate reduction (the mantra of supply-siders), for the modern Classical thinkers to support Obama's small-business tax cuts is for them to endorse further complexity within of our tax code, in which we ascribe to politicians the power to use taxation as a way to drive specific behavior.
However, biodiversity and ecosystem services are declining at an unprecedented rate and the world failed to reach the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target of a significant reduction in the rate of biodiversity loss by 2010.
Like the House-passed stimulus bill, the Senate Republican proposal would also accelerate marginal rate reduction of the 28 percent bracket to 25 percent.
The difficulty of achieving a reduction in the rate of wage increases ought, in short, to be considerably less than that of achieving absolute cuts.
Under more conservative estimates of the reduction in the growth rate of health care costs, the income gains are smaller, but still substantial.
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Recently, Rogers has reported to making reductions to his stakes in several companies, with an average reduction rate of about 50 percent.
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Mr. Barthold ran an experiment in which he eliminated some major tax expenditures and measured how much of a rate reduction that would permit while remaining revenue neutral.
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The upshot of all this activity is a marked reduction in the rate of new infections, though sceptics point out that the fall began before ARV use and circumcision became widespread, and that the role of behavioural changes (including a greater willingness to use condoms) should thus not be underestimated.
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"My understanding is that the Russian government is ready to make a contribution with an extension of the loan and a reduction of the interest rate, " said the EU's top economic official, Olli Rehn.
Its management of the Amazon rainforest is crucial to the health of the planet, which is why the recent large reduction in the rate of deforestation has been so encouraging.
In the light of that outlook, the Committee judged at its October meeting that an immediate reduction in Bank Rate of 0.5 percentage points to 4.5% was necessary to meet the 2% target for CPI inflation in the medium term.
But it acquired its key global pledge during the Johannesburg summit of 2002, when governments agreed to achieve a "significant reduction" in the rate of biological diversity loss by 2010.
To create our rankings we looked at six measures of economic performance GDP growth, per capita income growth, employment gains, unemployment rate reduction, inflation reduction and federal deficit reduction for each of the ten postwar presidencies.
These things are well worth the price for the short- and long-term power of tax-rate reduction, sound currency and unclogged credit arteries.
But more importantly, it is a magic that works beautifully, by accident, in a way Keynes did not forsee, when it operates through policies of tax-rate reduction.
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The letter cites a recent study finding that in 2007 more than 27 million tax returns had dividends qualifying for the tax-rate reduction, and of those, 30% were from taxpayers age 65 and older.
Quantitative easing (QE) was the catch phrase of the day on Tuesday as the markets digest both the Bank of Japan's new and possibly radical asset purchase program and rate reduction pair, and the prospect of further QE by the Fed.
Making matters worse, the Joint Committee of Taxation issued a report stating that in order to pay for a reduction of the top corporate rate to 28%, Congress would have to eliminate virtually all corporate tax deductions, including those for domestic manufacturing, the very industry President Obama aims to protect with the reduction in rates.
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He may also signal a further reduction in the rate of corporation tax to 20p.
Any further reduction in the rate of tonsillectomy is likely to be associated with a further worsening of this trend.
The Scottish government says that comes from an inflationary increase, a reduction in the rate of successful appeals on rates valuation, and on economic buoyancy.
The economic slowdown in the UK as well as a reduction in the rate of corporation tax have led to a 17% drop in corporation tax payments since 2005.
It provides support for arguments by U.S. companies that they face a competitive disadvantage in the U.S. marketplace, since most non-U.S. multinationals except Japan already have lower taxes before the added bonus of an effective tax rate reduction when they establish an American subsidiary.
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The so-called Krebs trial showed that there is a 16% reduction in the rate of increase for a 150 sq km area (60 sq miles) if more than 70% of badgers are killed in a series of culls held once a year for four years.
While entitlement programs which include some 80 means-tested welfare programs, plus Medicare and Social Security, and many smaller programs, such as the GI Bill are begging for reform, Republicans should tread carefully because Democrats will blame any cut, or reduction in the rate of growth, on the GOP.
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