The best form of welfare is a good, high-paying job, and the best tax for creating jobs is a low-rate flat tax.
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Israel has made significant changes--especially under Benjamin Netanyahu, who was finance minister (2003--05)--but it could do a lot more, including instituting a low-rate flat tax.
The revolt then went worldwide, with, among other notable destinations, adoption of a 13% rate flat tax by Russia (and ensuing excellent growth) and macroeconomic policy in China leading to three consecutive decades of double digit economic growth.
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If you want advice delivered in person, consider a fee-only planner, meaning one who charges either an hourly rate or a flat rate, as opposed to one who lives off sales commissions.
Its Digital One Rate, offering a flat rate anywhere in the country with no roaming fees, has attracted more than 500, 000 subscribers since its launch in May.
Sensibly, President Putin has thrown out many of these exactions and given Russia a single-rate, flat tax system.
In terms of jobless claims, continuing claims rose by 10, 000 to 3, 730, 000 in the most recent report, as the insured employment rate remained flat at 3%.
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Wall Street expects the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics to announce that nonfarm payrolls were slashed by 105, 000, compared with a decrease of 84, 000 jobs in August, with the unemployment rate remaining flat, at 6.1%.
Pettit says her research indicates that instead the rate was flat, at around one in five, even after the surge in interest in voting among many young black Americans with Barack Obama in the 2008 race.
To process the payments, businesses must rely on third-party merchant service providers (MSPs), which offer a dizzying array of rate structures that range from a flat rate to a percentage of the amount charged to the card.
The corporate tax rate should be halved, to a flat rate of 17.5%.
Personally, I think that is a rather low threshold for hitting the highest stated tax rate, essentially creating a rather stiff flat rate of 9.55% on significant amounts of income.
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Even if your withholding rate rises because of possible tax-rate increases after 2012, you can develop a tax-deferral strategy if the flat rate is less than your marginal tax rate.
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An insurer that sought to charge everyone the same rate would quick find itself in the red when people whose expected costs were higher than the flat rate raced to sign up.
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The growth rate in Hong Kong suggests that a 15% flat tax rate yields the optimal combination of robust private growth and healthy government tax receipts.
After a certain threshold of about 24 hours of continuous use, the bill accumulated at by-the-hour or by-the-minute rate typically exceeds the cost of otherwise paying a flat daily rate on a traditional car rental.
Likewise, in Indiana, the economy boomed after a flat rate went into effect in 2003.
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He also proposed a lower flat rate toll to cover the cost of maintaining the bridges.
The alternative is to charge more on a flat rate, and then everyone is discriminated against.
The strikers want this system extended to cable TV ads, which currently pay a flat rate.
Taxes are levied at a flat rate on all distillers, irrespective of their size.
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Currently, company employees and government workers pay premiums based on income, while the self-employed pay a flat rate.
While wages can still be taxed progressively, this allows a flat rate for dividends, capital gains and rents.
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So we don't have nothing more, just the same, you know, flat rate.
Currently the debate is whether Internet access should be billed by the minute or at a flat rate per month.
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Contributions and benefits were both flat rate and everyone, regardless of income, was entitled to be part of the system.
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That seems to exempt long-distance service that is charged at a flat rate per minute, as most is these days.
Then it changed the rules flat rate for usage below 200 kilowatt-hours a month and metered rates above that.
Then, in 1996, America Online opened the floodgates by introducing a monthly flat rate instead of charging by the hour.
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