In the nation's capital, you lose a lot of the other kind of capital to taxes. A $100,000 salary is reduced to just $72,366 - $79,568. The District of Columbia's income tax effectively takes 5.72% of the money, plus residents pay federal income tax. (The license plates say "End...
English is such a hodgepodge of different languages – it’s essentially Germanic but a lot of its vocabulary comes from French, and technical words stem from Latin and Greek. This feature makes English fairly adaptable – which is a good thing for a world language – but it causes irregulari...