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Ch 25 Government Finances

  1. Where does the government get their money from?
    TAXES
  2. What are the taxes that governemnt raise money through?
    • income tax
    • sale tax
    • property tax
  3. What are taxes on your income?
    income tax
  4. What are taxes on the good and services you buy?
    sale tax
  5. What are taxes on the property you own?
    property tax
  6. What is an example of taxes that are used to change people behavior?
    SIN TAX
  7. What is a SIN TAX and give example?
    is a tax design to reduce the consumption of an undersible product Ex. coke
  8. When are taxes fair?
    • everyone pays the same ammount
    • ritch pay higher % then poor
    • everyone pays equal %
  9. What are the 2 pronciples of Taxation
    • How do you select the persons or groups on whom the taxes will be imposed, or say how much each will pay?
    • Who pays what is very important!
  10. Who should have to pay taxes?
    everybody
  11. What is the benefit principle?
    those who BENIFIT from the government services should be the ones to pay for them
  12. What are the 2 limitations of the benefit principle?
    • those who benefit are poor
    • benefits are hard to measure
  13. What is the ability-to-pay principle?
    people should be taxed according to their ability to pay
  14. Who should have to pay the taxes based on the ability-to-pay principle?
    the rich
  15. What are the three general types of taxes?
    • proportional
    • progressive
    • regressive
  16. What is a proportional tax?
    a tax that imposes the SAME % rate taxation on everyone, regardless of their income.
  17. What is a progressive tax?
    a tax that imposes a higher % rate on people with high incomes and lower % rate on people with low incomes
  18. What is a regressive tax?
    • a tax that causes a higher % of income to be taken form the poor and a lower % of income to be taken from the rich
    • THE POOR PAY MORE!
  19. What amendment gave us the income tax?
    • sixteenth
    • when you are 16 you make income
  20. What is the FICA tax?
    the federal government collects this tax from both the employers and employees for social security and medicare
  21. What is corporate income tax?
    a tax a corporation pays on its profits
  22. What is an excise tax?
    a tax on certain goods
  23. What is an estate tax?
    a tax the government collects on the transfer of property when a person dies; more than $50,000
  24. What is a customs duty tax?
    a tax on imports
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Ch 25 Government Finances
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Chapter 25 Free Enterprise on taxes
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