Compare regressive taxes and progressive taxes and identify which income group benefits most from each type of tax.

What will be an ideal response?


A regressive tax increases as income decreases. A progressive tax increases as income increases. A progressive tax places a larger tax burden on the wealthy and a regressive tax places a larger tax burden on low income earners and the poor.

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a. A-B-A-B b. A-B-A-B-BC-B-BC c. multiple-baseline d. changing-baseline

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Identify the 1974 act that put the federal government squarely in the center of health-care regulation, often superseding state-level regulation.

What will be an ideal response?

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What consequences follow the character and quality of media coverage of political news when news organizations are privately owned? How does this differ from the type of coverage provided by publicly owned organizations?

What will be an ideal response?

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The Supreme Court did not order immediate nationwide desegregation, but instead it turned over the responsibility for desegregation to which of the following?

A. state and local authorities B. the national government C. special appointed boards D. the federal bureaucracy

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