"We are going to get eight percent of nothing rather than three or four percent of something," he said, referring to the city's current (8.95percentt) and proposed (3percentt) capital gains tax rates.
Wouldn't it be much better for the federal government to get five to ten percent of something, reduce the federal deficit, hire Americans and spur the economy?
And so going back to how does that affect real people on the ground--well, if you look at an economy as sort of what they call in game theory a zero sum game, meaning that's where the one percent versus 99percentt sort of terminology can be applied--if you look at an economy as this, you know, a hundred percent of something, and it's all going to the top--well, someone else is losing.
Thirty-six percent of 20-something and 30-something consumers said they were saving for a vacation, 27% reported saving for a house and 26% are setting aside money to buy a car, according to the AICPA report.
"Seventy percent of people who see something wrong don't do anything about it, because it's an incredibly stressful process," Mr. Clark said.
Ten percent of the tax or something like that.
Forty percent of babies were given something other than breast milk for their first feed, including water, glucose, salt solution or tea (28%); ghee (3%); mushroom soup (2%) or herbs (1%).
Ninety percent of boxers go in with something wrong with them.
Fifteen percent of page views came from something Quantcast calls "service sites," which Mashable defines as "restaurants, finding/purchasing entertainment, auto-related services, real estate, travel, shopping".
Nineteen percent of the articles surveyed had something to do with methods development.
Thanks to a measly two percent of you, I have to liveblog something called The Boy She Met Online on Channel 5 instead.
