Word: percents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...With 99 percent of the Virginia precinctscounted, Lt. Gov. Wilder had 880,955 votes or 50percent. His Republican rival, Coleman, had876,439 votes or 50 percent...
...this year, more than 175,000 East Germans--more than I percent of the population of 16.6 million--have moved to West Germany by emigrating legally, escaping or failing to return from approved trips abroad...
Last year, 23 percent of the value of mortgage interest deductions went to the two percent of taxpayers with incomes greater than $100,000. A 1981 study by the Congressional Budget Office shows three-fourths of the benefits go to the richest fifth of taxpayers...
...most taxpayers don't get anything at all from the deduction. The 66 percent of taxpayers who do not itemize their deductions get nothing. Thirty-eight percent of homeowners with mortgages do not claim the deduction. And tenants, whose incomes average half that of homeowners, are not eligible for any deduction. Nor are citizens who are so poor that they owe no taxes...
...mortgage interest deduction has the privilege of being one of the most sacred of sacred cows in the tax code. During the debate over the 1986 tax reform bill, proposals to limit the deduction to primary residences and to cap the rate of deduction at 14 percent were soundly defeated in Congress...