The 2010 QDR made only marginal additional changes to the force structure inherited from the Bush Administration.

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The above is a simplified example of how income tax liability may be affected by pending changes in the marginal tax rates and changes in filing status.

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Changes in marginal income tax rates are not accompanied by quantitatively and directionally similar changes in the distribution of income taxes paid by various income level groups.

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So long as the discussion centers around minor changes to marginal rates, we can know that, whether they go higher or lower, the headline numbers will be a sideshow relative to the various favors given in order to reduce what we pay.

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In a word, the fiscal cliff deal yields, at best, small, marginal, and even trivial changes.

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Additional changes are merely marginal.

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The changes will probably be marginal, but there is a lot of room for improvement.

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That is because the CO2 greenhouse effect is weak and marginal compared to natural causes of global temperature changes.

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The results of the analysis suggest that changes over the past 65 years in the top marginal tax rate and the top capital gains tax rate do not appear correlated with economic growth.

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