"A lot of top-rate world champions have not managed to bow out undefeated, " said Calzaghe.
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In January, Mr Cameron gave the first hint of a government rethink when he warned of the "cliff edge" some families might face with the removal of child benefit for all top-rate taxpayers.
The capital is also stocked with the kinds of treats they don't cover in Social Studies classes top-rate farmers' markets, modern American restaurants, like chef Ris Lacoste's Ris, and nightclubs that attract more than that tiresome crop of 23-year-old congressional aides.
Yet, total state tax receipts in the nine no-income-tax states still grew 30% faster than in the top tax-rate states.
There is no clear correlation between economic growth since the 1970s and top tax-rate cuts across Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries.
Some will allow a top-up to variable-rate Isas, but not to fixed-rate products.
The current top rate on long-term capital gains is 15%, and the top rate on ordinary income such as interest and salary is 35%.
He whacked New Mexico's top income-tax rate by 40% and capital gains by 50%.
Mr Stoiber promises to bring down the top income-tax rate from a current 48.5% to under 40%.
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The platform calls for reducing the top corporate tax-rate to 25% from 30% and raising the minimum wage slightly.
The government was not much impressed by bosses who argued that the new 75% top income-tax rate was a disaster.
The 50% top income-tax rate creates further problems, by making it harder for entrepreneurs to recruit and retain the best people.
But his response, from raising the top income-tax rate to increasing college-tuition subsidies, was just a laundry list of small initiatives.
He also proposed reducing the top income-tax rate to 33% from 39.6%.
Competition among EU member nations has forced the top corporate-tax rate down by ten percentage points since the mid-1990s, according to Elga Bartsch of Morgan Stanley.
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With the addition of a 50% top income-tax rate from April for high earners, tax lawyers fear that more of the highly paid will choose to leave Britain.
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At Commons question time on 7 December 2010, he announced that specialist paediatric centres would get a "top-up" rate of 60% more than the standard rate paid to other hospitals carrying out the same procedures.
He is less ambitious on personal taxes than one of his rivals, Jon Huntsman, who would lower the top income-tax rate to 23% (versus 35% now) and pay for rate cuts by eliminating exemptions and loopholes.
Economists argue about the disincentive effects of higher tax rates. (Messrs Piketty and Saez, the economists who have transformed analysis of income concentration at the top, reckon, controversially, that the optimal top income-tax rate could be as high as 80%.) But no one doubts that there are trade-offs.
Job growth, as measured by non-farm payroll employment, rocketed ahead more than twice as fast in the nine no-income-tax states as compared to the nine top income-tax-rate states.
The top rate of capital-gains tax is currently 28%, over ten percentage points lower than the top rate of income tax (39.5%).
Even if it is hard to be sure how big these effects are, the size of the very top level seems to matter, so Britain's 50% rate is more dangerous than Mr Obama's proposal to raise America's top federal income-tax rate from 35% to 39.6%.
Politicians in Annapolis created a millionaire tax bracket, raising the top marginal income-tax rate to 6.25%.
Others will allow fixed-rate top-ups because the change is considered an "exceptional circumstance".
We do not know with confidence what the revenue-maximizing top tax rate is.
By the end of his presidency, he had reduced the top marginal income-tax rate from 70 percent to 28 percent.
In particular, the 35-percent top rate began at the same level of taxable income for joint, single, and head of household filers.
Mr Obama proposes to cut the deficit by returning the top marginal income-tax rate to the 39.6% level of the late 1990s.
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In order to restore competitiveness, we reduced the top marginal income-tax rate from the highest in North America to the second-lowest in Canada.
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