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.
The firm is trying to increase its foreign revenue and would like to see that percentage shrink, according to people familiar with the partnership but not authorized to speak on the record about it.
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.
The number of accidents may have increased, but the number of flights have increased by so much more, and so the percentage shrinks.
By 2007 it will have 9%, says Isuppli, while the U.S. share shrinks by five percentage points to 13%.
By last year that percentage had shrunk to 9.3percentt.
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.
And that last percentage is shrinking.
