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Blog Entries from 2006-01-27 to 2006-03-09
Paying Taxes
- Top 1% of taxpayers paid 33.9% of all individual income taxes
- Top 5% of taxpayers paid 53.3% of all individual income taxes
- Top 50% of taxpayers paid virtually all individual income taxes
- Share of taxes paid by bottom 50% of taxpayers fell from 4.15% to 3.65%
- Share of taxes paid by top 1% of taxpayers rose from 30.5% to 33.9%
Source: U.S. Internal Revenue Service
The first voyage was the British Royal Navy's ill-fated Franklin expedition of 1845. The second account was the succesful Norwegian Amundsen journey from 1903-1906
I've spent a remarkable amount of time authoring the Private Spaceflight encyclopedia entry in hopes of providing greater understanding of the interesting subject.
This business expansion led to a substantial increase in employment. In the intervening period, some 4.7 million new jobs have been created and the unemployment rate -- 6.3% in 2003 -- today stands at 4.7%, lower than the average of the 1970s, '80s and '90s.
The Heart of the Economy
By JOHN W. SNOW
February 15, 2006; Page A16
Wall Street Journal
"If we can get the cost low, we can extend life to another planet. "I want to help make humanity a space-faring civilization," he said with disarming — or alarming — candor.
A Bold Plan to Go Where Men Have Gone Before
By LESLIE WAYNE
New York Times, February 5, 2006
Stars become exiles when their path takes them too close to the supermassive black hole that exists at the Milky Way's center. In general, exiled stars start out as part of binary systems. Just as engineers can boost the velocity of spacecraft by maneuvering them close to planets, these stars receive a huge gravitational kick from the black hole, enough to eject them completely from the galaxy, and to break the bond with their binary partner.
Rogue Star Dangers Thought Slight
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 31, 2006
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