Total government spending declined for the past two years with only marginal effect on GDP growth.
Changing the pay rate of 6% might have some marginal effect on inequality, yes.
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In reality it was relatively timid, and was never going to have more than a marginal effect on traffic growth.
Continued interest-rate hikes and slowing home buying should have, at most, a marginal effect on 2006 because the economy's underlying strength likely won't flag.
The British are, quite simply, immature in their attitude to alcohol consumption and this in itself will have only a marginal effect on rates of offending.
In the end, the fund had only a marginal effect on the course of events, though Mr Gilman stops short of admitting it was out of its depth.
These are in effect hidden marginal rate increases.
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He noted though that while this purchase in itself will not do much for Dell's financials, the view is the company will be doing more of these purchases, with the combined effect having marginal impact on growth.
Or would the effect be marginal?
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That is because the CO2 greenhouse effect is weak and marginal compared to natural causes of global temperature changes.
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High marginal tax rates with inflation worsening their effect through bracket creep did their part.
The last the lumping together of lots of small trades has put pressure on fees by cutting the marginal cost of a trade, in effect to zero.
Although this plan does less than Mr McCain's to shift taxation from income towards consumption, the reduction of marginal tax rates could have a bigger effect on economic growth.
But -- no surprise -- mass unemployment has had its worst effect on the poorest and most marginal.
Either system has the end effect that individuals are paying their highest marginal rate on their dividend income.
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Certainly, raising an equivalent amount of tax revenue through means other than increases in marginal tax rates would likely have a smaller negative incentive effect.
The Laffer Curve-effect is more likely to work miracles if the highest marginal income tax rate is very high to begin with say over 50 or 60 percent and if the taxpayer has control of when to realize income for tax purposes.
In effect, the college funding system acts as a supplemental income tax, with marginal rates ranging up to 47%.
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