The EOR credit was implemented in 1990, and the Marginal Well Credit was signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1994.
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The new law penalizes marriage and for many upper-middle income families may boost federal marginal tax rates well above 40%.
Without free trade, domestic companies may have enjoyed monopolies or oligopolies that enabled them to keep prices well above marginal costs.
This can matter in situations other than marginal hiring decisions as well.
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Simple math shows that a marginal gas or oil well has a power density at least 22 times that of a wind turbine while a nuclear power plant has a power density that is more than 8 times that of a solar photovoltaic facility.
And the net has to take account of the fixed costs as well as the marginal ones.
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While the Bush tax cuts in 2001 and 2003 reduced the top marginal tax rates for the well off, tax rates for other taxpayers were cut too and family tax credits were expanded.
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In a May presentation, Conoco indicated it would be most likely to shed its marginal refinery in Germany, as well as two in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
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The Lib Dems hope that in Labour-held Bristol West, which is one of the few three-way marginal seats, an affluent, well-educated and left-leaning electorate will desert Labour over the war.
But the party is targeting floating voters in marginal constituencies, and thinks it will do especially well in them.
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Partly because the language is already so rich, the "marginal utility" of new words is declining: Existing things are already well described.
But CBO as well as the Joint Tax Committee woefully underestimate the negative economic effects of higher marginal tax rates, which the market recognizes as implied by higher government spending.
Pursuing such a vision would require very high marginal tax rates on anyone with above average production, income and wealth, which experience as well as theory shows us leads to less production.
Priceline registered a marginal decline in operating margins in Q3 2012 and expects the downward pressure to persist in Q4 as well.
Though some of the most active promoters are marginal outfits, big financial institutions such as Merrill Lynch and American Express are in the game as well.
"If the buyer is a marginal member of a royal family or a businessman it can go either way but tends to turn out less well, " says Mr Dorsey, a senior fellow at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University.
Note that closing loopholes may well raise the average corporate rate, on which Democrats and liberals have focused, but it is the marginal tax rate that drives the economy, as discussed above.
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