The federal government and most states use a system of progressive income tax rates. This means that as your taxable income increases, so does your maximum tax rate. In the 2014 tax year, for example, single people with a taxable income of $9,075 or less pay federal income tax at the tax rate of 10 percent.n the 2014 tax year, for example, single people with a taxable income of $9,075 or less pay federal income tax at the tax rate of 10 percent.
Betty White Is Not Dead, The Internet Just Got Its Homophones Mixed Up. Betty White, pillar of humanity and shining example of all that is funny and spectacular in the world, fell victim to a death hoax Wednesday evening, Sept. 3. White's many fans and other Internet news consumers who don't read past headlines confused dyes with dies and satire with reality, and pronounced the Golden Girls star dead.
As of this writing, Betty White is alive and well at the ripe young age of 93. She is the last member of the Golden Girls still alive. Estelle Getty died back in 2008, and Bea Arthur passed away in 2009. Rue McClanahan died in 2010, but earlier this year, everyone thought she had just died. That was an entirely different version of a celebrity death hoax, where the celeb was truly dead, but no one realized it had happened years before.