Why is a sales tax that is imposed on all products a regressive tax?
a) Because the rich spend more money on consumer goods than the middle class or poor b) Because everyone spends an equal amount on consumer goods c) Because poor people spend a larger percentage of their income on consumption items d) Because it provides an incentive to save mone
C
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A) Twitter. B) television commercials. C) newspaper ads. D) debates.
When a country settles a dispute with another country using peaceful means instead of resorting to war, it is an example of
A) arbitrage. B) diplomacy. C) collective bargaining. D) isolationism. E) expansionism.
Throughout the 2012 presidential election we saw several _____ polls that asked respondents the same general set of questions daily and reported the average of a three-day period
a. approval b. exit polls c. tracking polls d. ranking e. confidence level
Microcredit in developing countries has ________.
A. enabled banks to resist pressure from the International Monetary Fund B. increased the level of debt of developing countries to Western banks C. enabled many poor people to start small businesses D. increased the pressure to import goods