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For what it's worth, my 5s is noticeably snappier with iOS 8 than it was with 7. So at least iOS 8 doesn't make that slightly-older phone slow and dysfunctional. I can't speak for other models.
Are you referring to this discredited rumor, or something else?
http://www.snopes.com/politics...
That first graph isn't without its critics, it looks as though both the scale and the points in time that are labelled have been chosen to smooth over changes in tax revenue over time. Setting the scale at 100% does allow one to fit both a marginal tax rate of 90% and 28% within the same chart, but it does obscure significant-looking swings between 15 and 21% in revenue. Whether these changes in revenue were directly related to the marginal tax rate I don't know, though this author thinks they are:
http://www.newrepublic.com/blo...
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