The Lib Dems, who want to lower the basic rate of income tax, said the plans would only result in a marginal saving for people on average incomes.
Such policies impose higher implicit marginal tax rates on people who save and invest during their working years.
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For people with very high incomes, the rise in marginal tax rates would be smaller, but to the extent that itemized deductions rise with income, the loss of those itemized deductions means that the cut in marginal effective tax rates on high income people will be less than the cut in statutory rates.
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And the alliance that we wish to make is in order to combat poverty and to get people out of marginal situations and out of the exclusion.
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Switzerland, long a tax haven for the wealthy and a nation with once inflexible banking laws regarding secrecy, has one of the lowest marginal tax rates on working people, at 20%.
If they felt their marginal tax rate had fallen, people might be inclined to work more.
And there is not a word in the Lisbon conclusions, for example, about slashing high marginal tax rates, so that people who take the big risks in this new economy can get to keep the big rewards.
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While lower income people probably do spend a larger percentage of their marginal income on consumption in the short run, the income of higher income people usually gets spent, either directly on physical investment or indirectly on investment after financial intermediation.
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In our article "The Radical Grassroots" published on March 28, 2007, we discussed the potential situation generated by the emergence of new available masses represented in new populist movements in Latin America, formed by people who have been rather marginal in the political arena in the past.
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So far most governments have focused on raising marginal income-tax rates, something most rich people respond to quickly (see article).
These formulas look at the organization as the sole beneficiary of the value created that may be doled out later to the participants in the production process of the good (all the people and resources that contribute to the Marginal cost).
Mr. EDWARDS: Well in housing, for example, it seems to me that for many years the government has been pushing and pushing and subsidizing people, frankly, who only have marginal finances to buy homes, when, in fact, homes that they can't really afford.
Today the people in the US who face punishingly high marginal tax rates are blue-collar and middle-income workers, not investors and entrepreneurs.
When Presidents Kennedy and Reagan reduced the top marginal rates, it spurred growth and the upper income people felt better about fairness.
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In the days leading up to the vote, pro-democracy activists raised the stakes further by accusing Mr. Najib's government of attempting to sway the result of the election by flying in tens of thousands of people with questionable voting credentials to cast ballots in marginal seats.
Since fuel economy matters all of the time and marginal advantages in acceleration matter almost none of the time, reasonable people agree that's a constructive compromise.
Just as high marginal tax rates may dull work incentives, high saving requirements may make some people decide that working more just isn't worth it.
He also ridiculed a separate Anwar accusation that government supporters had flown as many as 40, 000 people around Malaysia in a bid to pad the voter rolls in marginal seats.
The main feature of irony that makes us associate it so closely with hipsters is that lots of hipsters are essentially downwardly mobile young people who are putting themselves to some practical use, however small or marginal, instead of sitting around getting obese.
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People trying to raise themselves out of poverty by earning more can face effective marginal tax rates (including phase-outs of various government programs) that exceed 100%.
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Leadership battles can turn violent in the marginal groups, none of which holds more than a single seat in the 454-member People's Assembly.
Four billion people worldwide lie squarely at the bottom of the economic pyramid, eking out a marginal existence of about three dollars per day.
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The supply restriction also makes Washington a more expensive place to live, forces people to commute longer distances, and discourages mixed uses in the downtown core when the next marginal square foot of space always makes the most money as office, why build apartments downtown?
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