He has advocated a simple two-rate personal income tax system, under which individual taxpayers could fill out their returns on a single sheet of paper.
In practice progressivity has tended to imply more than one rate of tax, for instance, which is necessarily less simple than a flat tax rate.
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Knowing your desired rate of return is simple enough, but whether you can reasonably achieve that rate of return or tolerate the necessary risk is another story.
To secure exclusive rights to the iPhone, it acceded to Apple's demand that the device come with a simple, flat-rate plan.
Square Register is the free app that enables anyone to safely and securely accept credit card payments with one simple, low transaction rate of 2.75% per swipe, with no hidden fees.
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And the most notable thing about the introduction of that system there, down from the almost impenetrable Soviet tax system, is that revenue collection went up when this low rate and simple system came in.
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He agrees that, theoretically, concealed carry laws could increase the likelihood that potential victims could carry a gun, and thus reduce the homicide rate (my simple model above).
Application of the standard mileage rate is relatively simple.
The first half of the interest rate forecast is very simple: short-term interest rates will remain in microscopic territory through 2013.
Past efforts to cut hospital queues have been based on the false assumption that they are a simple backlog, and that increasing the rate of treatments will eventually clear the backlog.
In simple economic models, a 40% tax rate costs the economy four times as much as a 20% tax rate.
Crowded spot with a simple and appealing menu and generally first-rate food.
The answer to this problem is happily quite simple: the Fed must float the short rate for credit that it currently sets, and in doing so, let rates rise to the level that equalizes the needs of lenders and borrowers.
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Hennepin County's Johnson notes that if there were a uniform tax system, a simple software program that includes a base state tax rate plus local options could be used by businesses to easily calculate and administer sales tax.
Balancing the budget is simple so long as politicians increase spending at a slower rate.
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If anyone at all knew what that cannibalisation rate would be then the answer would be simple.
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Zone: Set a target for pace or heart-rate (with optional heart-rate monitor) and track progress in a simple full-screen graph throughout a workout.
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Years ago, when I asked Norton Simon why he collected blue chip art and second rate companies he told me it was quite simple.
Why are we cutting the corporate rate to 17.5% and making it simple?
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The revamp uses a simple web interface to let us build free sports apps based on criteria as simple as distance and speed through to more specific measurements like heart rate and pressure.
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It is very high, up there with the new French rate, if there are no allowances, no possibilities for simple avoidance or exit from the system.
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The rate fell thanks to the addition of systems to ensure the simple stuff--that every patient with the ailment is quickly identified and immediately gets all recommended treatments.
Things like that could be something as simple as non-traded real estate investment trusts, or secured floating-rate income, as opposed to fixed income or bonds.
In that sense, if future pay is a concern, one simple solution would be for Congress to either vote to keep the capital gains rate at 15%--or better yet reduce the price of investment success to zero.
The ECB could try to engineer this by aiming for a, say 5% eurozone inflation rate for a few years or more and do that through either simple money printing or by monetising some of the periphery debt.
Under more normal financial conditions, the willingness of banks to engage in the simple arbitrage noted above will tend to limit the gap between the federal-funds rate and the rate the Fed pays on reserves.
From 1999 through 2001, two of the 175 patients on whom Isom performed a simple coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) died, a 1.14 percent mortality rate, according to figures recently released by the New York State Department of Health.
It sounds simple, but it took Anheuser-Busch some 18 months to produce what they claim is a first-rate premium lager.
For those whose weight gain may be due in part to the activity of M. smithii, controlling the organisms with antibiotics or other medications could slow down the rate at which they pack on the pounds, and these individuals could easily be identified with a relatively simple breath test.
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