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...your income gets taxed. In 2009, payroll taxes will only be levied on the first $106,800 earned, meaning that a millionaire will pay a far smaller percentage of income in payroll taxes than someone who earns $40,000. As it concerns Social Security, this is premised on the notion that you’re paying into your own personal account, not funding the benefits of those less or more fortunate than yourself...
...locales become hot spots-and stay that way: "We believe there is a reinforcing, recursive mechanism that makes particular places the center of social activity, which may be linked to the broader notion of "place in product," whereby particular goods wish to be linked with particular places in order to attain greater value or buzz...
...totalitarianism, financial ruin - with the 9/12 Project, a tearful call to viewers to rediscover the common purpose they felt after 9/11. In 2001, that common purpose involved cable-news talkers' dialing down the us-vs.-them shtick for a day or two; now Beck urged viewers to reject the notion that "they" have all the power. "They don't surround us," he declared. "We surround them...
Food experts dispelled the notion that locally-grown food is necessarily more costly and explained the recent interest in sustainability at a panel discussion yesterday hosted by the Harvard Culinary Society, Real Food Harvard, and the Food Literacy Project. Panelist and History of Science professor Steven Shapin, who teaches a class on the “History of Dietetics, noted the “immense popularity of food porn,” attributing the increased interest in ingredient origins to the media’s recent focus on the culinary world. “Fewer people sit down...
...those tempted to label Groves as the pawn of partisans in the White House or the Democratic Party, I have a warning: the notion of Bob Groves yielding to partisanship is laughable. As in rolling-on-the-floor, laughing-out-loud laughable." - Mark Blumenthal, publisher and editor, Pollster.com. (April...