along with fuel, cigarette, inheritance, sales and other taxes, explains theU.S. Department of the Treasury. Other states impose no income tax, but charge higher sales taxes and provide fewer social services. In states with no income tax, counties and municipalities often have higher property...
Difficult to define a “middle class” (i.e. upper middle, middle middle and lower middle) probably the largest class group in the United States – because being middle class is more that just income, about lifestyles and resources, etc. What is wrong with hierarchy? The danger of hierarchy...
When you leave the United States to go to a foreign country or when you return to the United States from a foreign country, the time you spend on or over international waters does not count as time in a foreign country. Example: You leave the United States ...
Since the installation of lights in 1965 the Canal has operated every minute of every day; the demand is that great. We saw several dozen huge vessels queued up out in the Pacific in what they call the “anchor line”, awaiting confirmation that payment had been transacted before they entere...
Finally, in 1966, Congress passed the Uniform Time Act, which standardized daylight saving across the country and established its start and end times in April and October (later changed to March and November in 2007). So, when do we "fall back" and return to Standard Time here in Michigan...
In 1800, Wylie became the first Covenanter ordained in the United States. Findley, in contrast, came from a long line of “Old Dissenting” Presbyterians, who generally opposed the state establishment of churches. Paul J. Gutacker, The Old Faith in a New Nation (emphasis added). It bears...
tipped in most places. their employers give them low wages because it is expected that customers will make up the difference. if you don't, the service person can't earn a living. tipping also varies from place, generally in the area of 15% of your bill(before taxes), but again you ...
which is caused by a number of factors. for a start, there is an increasing population of people over age fifty-live who want to stay lit. in addition, the growing obesity problem among adults and children alike—a problem jenkins can identify with—needs to be addressed. as a child, je...
Santa Anna needed to recuperate funds for the great financial losses in Texas, so he sent Albino Perez as Governor to northern New Mexico to impose new taxes to recuperate monies. It proved to be an unpopular move and Perez proved to be an unpopular governor. Resistance turned harsh in the...
In the United States, when one becomes rich, he wants people to know it. And even if he does not become very rich, he wants people to think that he is. That is what “keeping up with the Joneses is about. It is the story of someone who tried to look as r