Pictured: The incredible deep-sea glow worm called the 'Unicorn of the Sea' that can grow up to 100ft. 1  Deep sea divers have captured images of the elusive Pyrostremma spinosum in open water off the coast of Tasmania.
What is earmarked tax? In general terms, earmarked tax means that all or a fixed portion of revenues from a particular tax or levy are kept separate from general revenue and used exclusively for a specific government expenditure programme or specific activity.
Earmarks have often been treated as being synonymous with  pork barrel  legislation. Despite considerable overlap, the two are not the same: what constitutes an earmark is an objective determination, while what is pork-barrel spending is subjective. One legislator's pork is another's vital project.