No exemptions, either — except that everything above a hundred grand or so a year is untouched, which means that as salaries climb into the stratosphere the tax, as a percentage, shrinks to a speck far below.
Meanwhile, their waistlines ("the cross-sectional area," in scientific parlance) and their body-fat percentage shrank; their insulin resistance came down; and their muscle-composition ratio shifted toward so-called slow-twitch fibres, which tire slowly and burn fat, and which predominate in long-distance runners.
But as Instagram Stories gained steam by the end of 2016, Snapchat's percentage shrank to 64percentt.
That percentage shrunk, as he lost support nationwide, to 60% among 25-29 year-olds in 2012 – though this was still more than among any other age group.
The number of accidents may have increased, but the number of flights have increased by so much more, and so the percentage shrinks.
Around 64percentand77percentcent of formal workers in Lebanon and Syria, respectively, have written contracts with their firms; those percentages significantly shrink, to 18.4percentand26.7percentcent, for informal workers.
By last year that percentage had shrunk to 9.3percentt.
And that last percentage is shrinking.
In 2009, 68% of technology companies were profitable at IPO, but that percentage has shrunk every year since, reaching 28% in 2013 and continuing to fall this year.
But as 2009 ended, the percentage had shrunk to 72.
