What really infuriates big businessmen is that, while they now have to cope with one of the highest tax rates in the rich world (see chart), the state is doing little to curb its own spendthrift ways.
Check out this chart to see how your state would be affected by these cuts.
The case, legal experts say, could chart new territory well beyond Washington State.
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And note this: Those unemployment rates would be a lot higher if the Europeans weren't using big chunks of their tax grab to add millions of state jobs to the national payrolls (see chart, page 51).
Wells Fargo has lower legal costs than many of its rivals (see chart) but still receives around 300 state, federal and grand-jury subpoenas a week on average.
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As a share of what the CBO reckons is the normal labour force, it is the lowest since the 1960s (see chart), reflecting deep cuts in state and local government payrolls.
The below chart plots the growth in total federal and state student aid against the change in one measure of college affordability: the ratio of real average FTE enrollment-weighted tuition to real median family income.
But obviously there is a lot of work that remains to be done so that we can create a two-state solution in the Middle East in which we have an Israel that is secure and fully accepted by its neighbors, and a Palestinian people that have their own state, self-determination, and the ability to chart their own destiny.
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State and local governments account for most public investment (see chart).
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And, as you can see from this chart (click to enlarge), the French welfare state is enormous.
In a report on India's economy, the consultancy points out that 43% of India's capital stock is owned by the state, and that the productivity of these assets is well below the Indian average (see chart).
Our chart, based on research by three university economists, took a different metric, using state health department's figures for doctors who work directly with patients.
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