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It may as well be. The Labor government in the United Kingdom is seeking to enact a 50% - it needs to be belabored: 50% - income tax on all those earning GBP150,000.
Prior to Margaret Thatcher, Great Britain was suffering chronic high unemployment, a.
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Participants shout slogans during a May Day rally organized by Japan’s National Confederation of Trade Unions in Yoyogi Park in Tokyo, Japan, Friday, May 1, 2009. The government announced Friday Japan’s jobless rate jumped to its highest in more than...
