Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Stats and records don't matter to me," he says. "I suppose I would have liked to make the playoffs, but any disappointment I feel is offset by the satisfaction in the progress the team has made...
First, opponents' claim of regressiveness is questionable, since studies have shown that the VAT is not as regressive as payroll taxes which are currently in the US to generate as much as a fifth of total revenue. Furthermore, if the VAT is regressive, the government can easily offset this by granting refundable tax credits (such as the Earned Income Tax Credit...
Deductions were especially handy for the Clintons in those years, when they were needed to offset gains made by Hillary Clinton's foray into commodity trading. She added $26,541 to the family income in 1978 and $72,436 in 1979. Even with deductions, the growth of the Clintons' tax payments outpaced the rise of their income. For 1977, they paid taxes of $8,194 on an adjusted gross income of $41,731. By the next year, their income more than doubled, to $85,214, but their taxes grew faster, to $22,627. For 1979, when their reported income...
...enamored of it. Sales taxes are regressive: poor people who exhaust their earnings on taxable goods and services will be hit harder than the well off, who spend less of their disposable income. And although the per-student minimum gave it the appearance of egalitarianism, that impulse seems offset by a loophole exempting the state's 40 wealthiest districts from limits on per-pupil spending. Furthermore, sales-tax revenues are notorious for sudden plunges when consumer spending slows down during a recession. Warns Raymond Mackey, a regional director of the American Federation of Teachers, which opposed the measure: "There will...
When audience size impacts the value of commercial time, Koppel said, high ratings are critical to a program's survival. Programs with high ratings can offset lower-rated programs on subjects such as Bosnia and the economy...