Making the code less complicated and more efficient may not achieve the rate-cutting, base-broadening reform many want.
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Opponents point out that the tax code will become less progressive, exacerbating income inequality.
About 15 percent of the portfolio is cut completely, leaving less code that has to be maintained.
Tax reform is supposed to be about making the tax code simpler, less distorting, and less arbitrary.
There is no building code, much less any means of enforcing one.
Just as vexing, if Congress cuts that bundle of tax breaks across the board while trimming rates by 20 percent and eliminating the AMT, the Tax Code becomes much less progressive.
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As part of its Digital Service Efficiency effort to reduce power consumption in its data centers, eBay slightly changed some of its software code so that the code would require less memory.
The businessmen of The Bad Sleep Well (1960) are samurai in business suits, gangsters in skyscrapers, with a code of honor no less remorseless.
Editors who often work with scanned prints and negatives might find the Visualize Spots tool to be quite useful, which helps you easily identify dust spots and remove them, while perfectionists can take advantage of Upright, the app's new perspective shift technology -- it's some crazy voodoo code that more or less works like magic (see screenshot above).
True, design is less quantifiable than code, but it can similarly benefit from the power of networks, as I wrote yesterday.
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Soon after, however, the man grew remorseful, as the tryst apparently caused some friction in his other, less Internal Revenue Code-based relationship.
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Of the 6 billion bases of DNA code, he needed a little less than 3 million, or half a percent.
"The American people deserve a tax code that helps small businesses spend less time filling out complicated forms and more time expanding and hiring, " he said.
Truth is, America's tax burden--after you add up state and local and pile on the cost of complying with our buffoonish 54, 000-page tax code--is not much less than Europe's.
That the mortgage interest deduction is landlocking individuals at a time when they need to be highly mobile in pursuit of work is yet another reason to abolish a tax-code provision that the property-less must cover.
But is the revenue code really stable when it produces far less money than the government spends?
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Like most complexities within the United States tax code, the alleged positives tend to be less efficient or less certain to realize than some of the obvious negative consequences.
That could simply mean raising more from private sources and, indeed, an increase in the total dollar amount which goes to charity could be a collateral benefit if less government spending and a simpler tax code lead to renewed economic growth.
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Less than a year after Benioff first gave away code that let independent developers build things for Salesforce, 18, 000 developers have registered on the site, so many more mashup apps are certainly on the way.
At a less extreme level the transition issues created by a hypothetical Internal Revenue Code of 2013 will keep me occupied until my normal retirement age in 2018.
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It lets a user specify between three and five pals on the social network (no more, no less) who can be counted on to pass along a special code if the user somehow gets locked out of his or her account.
Less than a week after Apple was rumbled by Reddit users of including code to hide a court-ordered apology to Samsung on its U.K. Web site, the code has now been removed.
Tell that to the programmers and engineers that worked on the code and the support staff that worked getting not only a Photoshop or Office, but less popular programs, which while not commanding a huge clientele, are just as complex in their creation, to market.
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Offering to pay them less than their usual hourly income as they figure out how to manipulate the tax code seems only fair.
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An innovative proposal has been offered by Dr. Morris Davis, the inventor of a program known as Transition Software that has demonstrated impressive capabilities to accomplish such corrective action on mainframe computers in a fraction of the time -- and at far less cost -- than is currently associated with human review of each line of code.
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The program, code named Gaia for the Greek goddess of the earth, was attacked in a lightning raid taking less than two days last December, the person said.
Brazil's legal system derives from Roman law, in which judges generally base their decisions less on the precedents set by their predecessors and more on their understanding of a written code.
Despite their less-than-friendly sounding names, referring to sections of the U.S. tax code, these programs are your friends.
Code.org claims that computer-programming jobs are growing at twice the U.S. national average while less than 2.4% of college students graduate with degrees in computer science -- less than 10 years ago.
The 6, 000-patient study was designed to show that AtheroGenics' drug, known by the code name AGI-1067, decreased the risk not only of heart attack, stroke and death but also of less important heart problems, including stent procedures, bypass surgery and chest pain.
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