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Total personal taxes are mildly progressive, increasing steadily as a share of income from 14% at the 10th percentile to 28% at the 90th percentile, but then falling off sharply to 22% at the top, owing to the favorable treatment of capital gains and investment income, the wage cap on social security taxes, and the sharp regressivity of sales taxes.

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A friend pointed out to me that all of my big stories mirrored my own, each centering on a life that had changed in an instant, owing, if not to a crash, then to an inheritance, a swing of the bat, a click of the shutter, an arrest.

One man's safety is owing to the destruction of another.

Same is true for organ failure, when you have loss of function owing to poor perfusion of kidney, of liver, acute respiratory distress syndrome and damage suffered in cardiac-bypass surgery.

The only thing that keeps the film interesting is the fact that we already know it's going to end badly for one reason or another, owing to the first scene.

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