Our 35% levy (add another 5% for state taxes) stands in vivid contrast to Ireland's 12.5%.
Her reluctance here, while disappointing, is not hard to fathom; such a tax stands no chance in Congress, at least as it is currently constituted.
Kinnan points out that the gas tax stood at 4 cents in 1980 and has more than quadrupled since then.
While losses on ordinary activities after tax stood at £2.89m, they were an improvement on the loss of £3.72m for the same period the year before.
Telecommuting is infinitely more feasible than it was just a decade ago, and high-tax states stand to lose a large chunk of their revenues from the practice.
But the governor must tread carefully around the issue because Texas, which does not have a state income tax, would stand to lose substantial revenue if sales taxes are not made workable on the Internet.
The resulting debate has created perhaps the greatest test of the tax stand in the last two decades.
Yet the White House and Democrats in Congress did not see a crack in Republicans' longstanding anti-tax stand.
But Norquist's true legacy isn't his anti-tax stand but his "pro-1 Percent" efforts -- the creation of the K Street Project, which ensures that politicians who kill legislation that would help the 99percentt will be rewarded with jobs lobbying for the 1 Percent one they're thrown out of office.
