Low tax rates make it easier to get to the point of diminishing marginal utility from extra work and incremental investment risk.
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The study suggests that each reduction of one percentage point in the marginal tax rate could increase the number of new businesses by as much as 2%.
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Joe the Plumber, icon that he became, was not ultimately all about marginal tax brackets worked out to the umpteenth decimal point.
Portugal has increased its value added tax by 1 percentage point across all categories, while increasing the top marginal tax rate by 1.5% on top earners and by 2.5% on corporations.
Fighting their first election, the Liberal Democrats did much to give themselves a politically vital unique selling point apart from the issue of proportional representation - a marginal concern to most voters.
As a result huge amount of marginal land has been taken in as pasture, overgrazed to the point of exhaustion, and now farmers are being forced to watch the topsoil literally blow away on the spring winds.
Now to be fair, there are some marginal benefits associated with this capital swap, which I am sure the company would point out if asked.
You trumpet that your secretary pays a much higher marginal tax rate than you do as some sort of meaningful, no revelational, data point.
Mr Cameron's appeal in marginal constituencies in the midlands and the north has yet to be tested, though Tories point hopefully to results in the local elections in May.
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Eventually we will reach a point where policy makers have driven out so much systemic background risk that any marginal decrease systemic background risk will simply induce individuals to take on more personal risk until they raise the total risk level back up to where it was before.
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