Avoid antibiotics when a sore throat is due to infection with a virus. The antibiotics will not help. Using them to treat viral infections helps strengthen bacteria to become resistant to antibiotics. Gargle several times a day with warm salt water (1/2 tsp of salt in 1 cup water).
1 Tax Policy Center data show that only about 17 percent of households did not pay any federal income tax or payroll tax in 2009, despite the high unemployment and temporary tax cuts that marked that year. [ 2 5] In 2007, a more typical year, the figure was 14 percent.
The average American pays almost 30% of their income to taxes. Here's the breakdown. According to the IRS's preliminary data from the 2015 tax year (the returns you filed during 2016), there was a total of $1.454 trillion in income tax owed, which translates to an average effective federal income tax rate of about 13.5% per return.