This is a very important distinction as the vast majority of Americans, including unfortunately most politicians and the vast majority of the news media, equate tax rates and changes in tax rates with directionally and proportionally equal changes in tax revenues (if you are the Federal Government) and total tax payment or tax burden (if you are the tax payer).
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But while the U.S. is far from an actual socialist nation, where the government accounts for most of the economy and the vast majority of citizens earn their living from tax dollars, some believe that there is still something nefarious going on with the markets at the hand of government.
In the most recent quarter, the vast majority of recipients complied with the law, submitting spending reports on 65, 429 Recovery awards.
In most states, the vast majority of people convicted of crimes are sent to state-run prisons.
Figures gathered by the OFT reveal that the vast majority of the most popular smartphone games were free to install but raised cash for their creators via in-app purchases.
They also complained that Israel, as the occupying power, controlled most of the Palestinian water resources, and took the vast majority of the water.
This certainly seems to be the case for guns, with most European governments prohibiting firearms ownership for the vast majority of people.
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Since 68% of Americans are either overweight or obese, does that mean as biased observations would implicitly conclude that the vast majority of the citizens of the most powerful nation on Earth are both lazy and ignorant?
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Though most people eat, drink, and use dozens of foodstuffs and products per day, the vast majority of us never actually look at the labels and ingredients lists on most of our products.
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At most events of this type, the host tends to keep the vast majority of speaking slots to itself, all the better to bandy about its good works.
But we are told by most agencies involved in this that the vast majority of abuse, sexual and physical abuse, takes place within families.
The Sierra Club's Beyond Coal campaign, which began a little more than 10 years ago in response to the Bush administration's plan to build hundreds of coal-fired power plants, has successfully opposed the vast majority of proposed new plants and helped to retire 130 of the dirtiest, most-polluting existing coal plants in the United States.
For most of these companies (33 out of 35), the vast majority of their shareholders have voted affirmatively for their executive pay arrangements.
Most of these services either openly or subliminally promote the thesis that the vast majority of our financial problems are caused by our cognitive inability to master our finances.
Online is where most everyone does research, and where the vast majority of commerce takes place.
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The vast majority of the time most people are better off focusing on a specific, 3-part message.
That is certainly a conviction held by most Americans, and certainly backed up by the vast majority of the science.
Although the most recent data have yet to be published, they're expected to reveal that the vast majority of remembered "facts" are now make-believe.
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The UN and Afghan government figures show that the vast majority (95%) of poppy cultivation took place in the nine most insecure provinces in the country's west and south in 2012.
There are some ingredients here for explosive losses: the stock has outperformed most of its peers in the Web 2.0 world, the lock-up covers a vast majority of the outstanding shares and insiders to date have been unable to sell.
The vast majority of viewers are white, with most of the players from humble beginnings and black.
This most recent Benbrook article would likely have failed peer review by the vast majority of experts in this field.
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But for the vast majority of poor black South Africans what matters most are bread-and-butter issues, such as housing, health and education, not the niceties of the law.
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I'm sure most parents would wish their children an education at Harvard, but the vast majority of the college-educated in America receive their education outside of the Ivy League and they are the individuals most responsible for America's economic success.
Yet it is intelligence tip-offs, not airport checkpoints, that have foiled the vast majority of attempted attacks on aircraft (including the most recent one).
Due to historical patterns of lifetime employment (shushin koyo), the vast majority of parents still believe these paths present the most stable careers, the highest cumulative pay and the most prestige.
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Like most things, it can be used for good or bad, but the vast majority of hackers I've met tend to be idealistic people who want to have a positive impact on the world.
The vast majority of its beneficiaries are sellers of agricultural goods, most of whom are not poor.
Barack Obama and most Democrats in Congress have long advocated keeping taxes at their current levels for the vast majority of Americans, but allowing them to rise for the rich.
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