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Income tax statistics also hide a couple of important realities. One is the FICA or Social Security tax. Unlike the income tax, FICA applies to the first dollar you earn, but not to the 100,000th, and it isn't assessed on any investment income. The other reality is that income figures do not really reflect increases in wealth, most of which are tax free. Increases in the value of investments are not taxed until the investment is "realized" (i.e., sold). If you die without selling, the profit during your lifetime is never taxed. And when investment profit does...
...triple motor-vehicle--license fees, adding nearly $4 billion a year to the state's coffers. Higher income taxes for the wealthiest Californians are a possibility too, according to Democratic state senator John Burton. In New York City, Mayor Michael Bloomberg is weighing a surtax on those who earn more than $200,000 a year...
Global income disparity is just as great, with half the world’s population living on $2 a day. The gross domestic product per capita in America is just under $35,000. In other words, average Americans earn 48 times as much as people in the poorer half the world’s population. Corporate CEOs who make upwards of $100 million per year are worth as much as 14,700 people from the world’s poorer half...
Providence’s Meredith Roth needed just 21 seconds to earn the game’s first penalty for hooking. While it seemed that the officials might call a tight game, that possibility quickly disappeared minutes later when a Friar player clotheslined sophomore Nicole Corriero and nothing was called...
Myat San served in the Singapore Armed Forces. In Singapore, all males 16 and older are required to serve two years in the National Service, a requirement that Myat San, now 21, regards with pride. “You have to earn your citizenship. It’s not a free meal in Singapore,” he says...