Truth is, America's tax burden--after you add up state and local and pile on the cost of complying with our buffoonish 54, 000-page tax code--is not much less than Europe's.
But this one-size-fits-all scheme - which is being imposed on people whether they like it or not - is nothing less than a parking tax.
He, however, is not entitled to pretend that he is anything less than aggressively, negatively, nastily, partisan.
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All that said, it can be painfully clear when a performer (famous or not) is giving less than everything onstage.
But another seven miles is not, and if less than half a mile of this highway succumbs to the 14-foot storm surges expected in the future, the highway will need to be shut down, cutting off the port.
This is something not to be scoffed at, but is less than a comprehensive solution...
There is nothing, or at least there should not be anything, which is less ideologized than scientific culture, and at the same time nothing is more universal than it.
But it is not that shoppers are spending less than they should on food in general.
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The best guess is that cronyism has not gone away, but that it is probably less rampant than before.
This implies that the average person is carrying more, not less, cash than he used to.
Under the current rules, you can generally use the standard mileage rate whether or not you are reimbursed and whether or not any reimbursement is more or less than the amount figured using the standard mileage rate.
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Whether the gross domestic product is rising briskly or not at all is immaterial if a particular company is priced at less than its readily ascertainable net asset value.
And like it or not, software is increasingly becoming less important than the data that drives it.
However, the breakdown of proteins is not, leaving older animals with less protein than their younger counterparts.
Not only is the US producing less oil than it has for forty years, it is employing fewer people.
Georgia's efficient police force may not be corrupt, but it is not independent, and television is less free than it was.
The president's attempt to end the war in return for something less than full independence is not necessarily doomed to failure.
The negative effect on reported levels of happiness of being paid less than your peers is not visible for people aged under 45.
If the book is not all it could be, it is still worth reading, though less for answers than for its interesting hypotheses.
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There is no doubt that HP is getting a large patent portfolio, a strong team of engineers, and a proprietary operating system in Palm webOS, and it is reasonable to assume that HP did not have other ways to acquire such assets for less than the price it is paying for Palm.
Indeed, it is not unusual for foreign investors to pay less tax than local smallholders.
Corruption has not been eradicated, but it is less debilitating than in many other places.
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Of course, on a per-listener basis, Sirius is shelling out far more than Pandora, not less.
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Relying on your gut or instinct is certainly better than not doing so, but in the end you can still have a less than optimal decision.
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This is not simply because sophisticated sniffing machines are less sensitive than dogs' noses or because prison teaches young addicts new crimes to feed their habits.
If Mr Campbell is not the obvious Republican front-runner, this is mainly because he has much less money than his two billionaire challengers from Silicon Valley, Meg Whitman and Stephen Poizner.
But China has let the yuan appreciate against the dollar by 6.6% in less than two years and is not likely to let it rise by much more anytime soon, at least without intense international pressure.
Do you really believe that the present situation, in which unscrupulous industries can and do buy enough votes to prevent legislation they do not like, is less damaging to constitutional government than the lawsuits or the precedent they set?
With respect to the first, the fact that the United States has not tested any of its nuclear arsenal in over 6 years is less a justification for the CTBT's ratification than a reason not to make such a ban permanent.
While it is true that 92% of games revenues goes to the host and national olympic committees and some of this money is used to support athletes, this is not provided to all athletes (or even all medal-winning athletes) and is generally less than the true financial needs of the athlete.
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