As a result, Mr Parry finds, the net benefits of a road-specific peak-period fee (the gain of less congestion minus the cost of disrupted travel) would be about three times bigger than a petrol-tax increase calculated to curb congestion by the same amount.

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As a result, the German power generators' association, the BDEW, says gas-fired electricity output in Germany fell last year by 13bn kilowatt hours, or 16 per cent, while coal-fired plants upped output by the same amount, recording a 5 per cent increase to 275.8bn kWh.

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The first is that increases in NII will always increase the amount subject to the 3.8% Medicare Surtax by the same quantity.

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As such, this big increase in revenue from the individual income tax means that the overall tax burden will climb by approximately the same amount.

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He also would allow for a 5% increase in the Earned Income Tax Credit for low-income workers, a program the governor cut by the same amount in 2011.

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Over the past 30 years this has gone up by 8m hectares, allowing food production to increase even though the amount of pumped water has remained much the same.

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But if you believe that alcoholism is defined by a preoccupation with drinking, a steady increase in the amount you need to drink in order to get the same effect, and an inability to give it up -- and most in the medical profession do -- then more and more women fit the profile quite nicely, though often come to the realization on their own.

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