But it was the off-stage drama that prompted more than double the average State of the Union audience to tune in.
U.S.-based multinationals face a 35 percent statutory rate, the highest in the world when combined with the average state corporate tax.
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Still, the state's tax as of July 1 is just 24 cents a gallon, 7 cents below the average state tax levy.
The Government Accountability Office reported last week that the average state "fiscal gap" is 14.2% over the next 50 years, largely because of health-care costs.
For the average state, failure to account for the exchange subsidies means that estimated job gains from Medicaid expansion are overstated by approximately 25 percent.
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They found the average state receives a 40-50% boost in earmarks in the year following a chairman's appointment, an increase that persisted for the rest of his tenure.
In fact, for every one percentage point increase in the number of entrepreneurs in a state, the average state saw a two percent decline in the poverty rate.
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The average state score on the Voter Involvement Index was 24, meaning that on average only one in four voters is on top of what's going on in the election.
With data stretching from 1980 to 1998, he calculated that a 10% increase in an average state's rate of gun ownership, proxied by magazine sales, was associated with a 2% rise in its homicide rate.
In short, using the methodology of studies such as those done in Florida, claims of Medicaid job gains are overstated by nearly two-fifths for the average state and may be overstated by considerably more than that for particular states considering expansion.
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The average state and local effective tax rate on telecom services--some of which is paid directly by customers and some of which is levied on the companies, who then pass on the cost--is 14.17% throughout the U.S., compared to 6.12% for general businesses, according to the COST study.
The interactive map shows, for each state, whether search activity is above or below the annual average for that state. (That means every state is above its own annual average in some months and below in other months.) In January, search activity in most states is already out of the winter slump and is above the annual average.
America suffers from virtually the highest corporate tax rate in the industrialized world, nearly 40% on average counting state corporate income taxes.
Data from two states, Indiana and Iowa, showed Amish students outperforming the state average in standardized tests.
Last month Santa Barbara County's foreclosure rate was just one in 298, well below the state average.
The city's tax rate (which includes a 3% city income tax) is 6.5 times the state average.
Your test scores in most subjects have been higher than the state average.
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The drop-out rate in the district is more than twice the state average.
This is on top of the current corporate tax rate of nearly 40% nationwide on average, counting state corporate tax rates.
Businessmen do not like the municipal tax rate, which is double the state average, though half what it was in 1990.
Poor students fared markedly worse than their wealthier counterparts, and their graduation rate was 54% in 2009, lower than the state average.
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In the tables attached to this article you can look at average deductions for state and local taxes, for interest and for charitable gifts.
That's significant in a town of 5, 000 people, and in a county that has the highest unemployment rate in Vermont: 7.1 percent, double the state average.
It's because of appliance and efficiency standards that we've been able to keep our energy usage relatively flat, and considering California is on average a warmer state, that's pretty amazing.
That would reduce the American corporate tax rate to nearly 20% on average, counting state rates, sufficient to restore the global competitiveness of the American businesses workers are counting on for jobs and higher wages.
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The average size of the state's 88, 000 farms is a mere 315 acres, compared with a national average of 436.
Rhode Island, for example, in 2009 passed regulations requiring that all health insurance policies in the state, beginning in 2010, be written at an eighth-grade level, which is the average reading level for state residents.
By October, every state is at least a little below its annual average of search activity, and in December every state is 10% or more below its annual average.
Rork of Georgia State (PDF available here) found that retirees pay, on average, only half the state income tax that working folks with the same income pay.
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