In the post-WWII era, the top tax rate has been as high as 94% and as low as 28%, yet tax receipts as a percent of GDP have been roughly 17% to 19% of GDP sometimes a bit more, sometimes a bit less, but never much more or less.
Indeed, among respondents who said the health care ruling had influenced hiring plans, 32.10 percent report being somewhat or much less likely to hire, and only 3.7 percent said they are somewhat or much more likely to hire.
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Katie's eyes opened wide with surprise, but she didn't let out so much as a whimper or whine, much less a cry.
There were occasional sightings of birds and fish and flies, but nothing that Max could reach or much less eat.
People in rich countries like the U.S. are not going to eat much less or much differently as a result of modestly higher prices.
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You are silent on which is better: a taxed lottery that supports these causes or a non-taxed lottery that would probably provide no, or much less, such funding.
Put in broader terms, an American electorate that wanted the rich to pay more in taxes and voted for it in the 2012 election is simply not satisfied, or much less assuaged, by the deal on the fiscal cliff that raised taxes on the wealthy by three points to 39.6 percent.
But there are no reliable tests to show that a person has been exposed to a specific mold or mycotoxin, much less how long that exposure lasted or how much of a substance he absorbed.
For example, a "Native Hawaiian" need not be able to demonstrate: residency in Hawaii (either currently or at any time in the past), ties to a particular traditional culture or language, or any documented involvement or interest in Hawaiian, much less Native Hawaiian, community or political affairs.
Many people lacked basic skills or education and had barely ever used a telephone, much less a computer or sophisticated factory equipment.
Overall they would be hard-pressed to accommodate much more than 10% of their region's growth, much less 50% or 60%.
On a per barrel basis, much less gasoline or heating oil will be produced.
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The films loaded with special effects that dominate the summer and Christmas holidays will not, however, become much less common or cheaper to make.
Many Fed insiders expect the end to their mortgage buying to have a mild effect on rates, a half-percentage-point increase or possibly much less.
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The report added a small proportion of the audience felt that, at times, 5 live had too much focus on trivial or less serious issues.
"Many children, as they get older, the tics become either much less prominent or certainly reduced to a single or just a few tics that are not as disabling, " Schub says.
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They will be asking, what is the value added by our campus when demand can be aggregated either by bringing students to campus or, much less expensively, by reaching and teaching students online virtually anywhere in the world?
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But mostly people were patient and generous and gracious, realizing that all of us were facing the same hardships, and that those hardships were much, much less than people in Staten Island or Long Island or New Jersey or elsewhere were facing.
You'd have to remove the headset every time you need to read anything, much less compare weapons or assign skills.
Susan Martin of Georgetown University says they are either much less skilled, or much more, than the average American, and can solve labour shortages in specific industries.
But at some point savers will realize that the 4.8% coupon on a long Treasury scarcely makes up for inflation, much less covers taxes or provides a real return.
So Russian workers, who will have to save more roubles than before to buy flats (which are priced in dollars) and foreign-made goods, are not likely to see those costs compensated by new jobs, much less higher wages or, for that matter, by wages paid in cash instead of in kind.
In this case, suppliers actually get paid at a much faster rate of 15 days or less.
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"We are, of course, much less prone to weekly or monthly whims than the Street, " Goddard says.
"They failed to show a single constitutional violation much less a widespread pattern or practice, " Ms. Grossman said.
Now it has no grocery stores or other middlemen, much less costly weigh-in centers, to eat up profits.
Or do we farm much less land much more intensively, leaving entirely untouched land available for that wildlife?
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The tone of the letter, though, makes it clear they find him much less believable than Pettitte or McNamee.
But what was relatively uncontroversial when there were just six or 12 members is much less acceptable in a Union of 25.
The Douglas fir, which produces more seeds than the Ponderosa pine but is much less tolerant of drought or fire, did especially well.
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