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If you wanted to make changes to a balanced state budget in any given year, what would be the opportunity cost of lowering taxes?
Provide at least one example each for the federal, state, and local government.
Summarizing What changes would you recommend if you were in charge of revising the federal tax code? Explain your answer in a written paragraph.
Explain the significance of payroll withholding statement, accelerated depreciation, investment tax credit, alternative minimum tax, capital gains and flat tax.
Define user fees in your own words. What are the pros and cons of user fees for national parks?
Why do you think sales taxes are generally applied to food and beverages purchased in restaurants, but not to those purchased in stores?
Describing How do the major revenue sources for state and local governments differ?
Explain the significance of Internal Revenue Service (IRS), payroll withholding system, indexing, FICA, payroll tax, corporate income tax and excise tax.
Equity Which of the two principles of taxation-the benefit principle or the ability-to-pay principle-do you think is more equitable? Explain your answer.
Explain the significance of federal budget, fiscal year, appropriations bill, budget deficit, budget surplus, mandatory spending and discretionary spending
Do you think that transfer payments, such as unemployment compensation, are a successful or unsuccessful way to accomplish the goal of economic security?
Explain the significance of pork, public sector, private sector, transfer payment, grant-in-aid, subsidy, and distribution of income.
Write a brief summary of your findings and use it to either support or oppose such a proposal.
Describe how an economist might go about analyzing the consequences of shifting from the individual income tax to a consumption tax like the VAT.
Taxes Some people object to state and local governments imposing sales and property taxes. What would you say to these people in defense of the two taxes?
Comparing and Contrasting What were the goals of the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981, the 1986 tax reform, and 2001 tax changes?
Why do you think Alaska has no sales tax or personal income tax? What provisions of tax measures enacted in last 20 years benefit taxpayers with higher incomes?
which of the following taxes would you prefer to use: individual income, sales, property, corporate income, user fees, VAT, or flat?
Explain why Congress enacted the alternative minimum tax. Identify the advantages and disadvantages of a flat tax.
Discuss the deductions that are withheld from paychecks. Describe the major tax reform bills enacted since 1981.
Identify the two components of FICA. Distinguish between excise taxes, estate and gift taxes, and customs duties.
Explain why a sales tax is considered to be a regressive tax. Explain the three criteria used to evaluate taxes.
Interpreting If you were a semiskilled worker, what could you do to move into a higher category of noncompeting labor?
If you represented a company during a collective bargaining session, and if negotiations were deadlocked, what course of action would you recommend? Why?
Explain the significance of wage rate, unskilled labor, semiskilled labor, skilled labor, professional labor and market theory of wage determination.