Unlike with Social Security taxes, there is no threshold on earnings beyond which the Medicare tax collection stops

Indicate whether the statement is true or false


TRUE

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A. Obama Administration believes that taxes can alter the spending decisions of taxpayers. B. Obama Administration is committed to across-the-board reductions in personal income tax rates. C. Bush Administration's tax cuts were too costly. D. credo of Congress is "No Good Deed Will Go Untaxed."

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Interlace, Inc produces and a unique soda. The company cannot price discriminate. The figure above shows Interlace's demand curve, marginal revenue curve, and marginal cost curve. Interlace's profit maximizing level of output is

A) 30,000 bottles. B) 50,000 bottles C) 100,000 bottles D) 0; that is, the firm shuts down.

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A farm equipment retailer in Azerbaijan exchanges Azerbaijan manats (the currency of Azerbaijan) for $300,000 a bank in Azerbaijan was holding. It uses the $300,000 to buy farm equipment from a U.S. company. The U.S. company deposits half of these funds

in a U.S. bank and exchanges the other half for euros from a bank in London. As a result of these transactions, by how much, if at all, and in which direction did: A. U.S. net exports change? B. U.S. net capital outflow change?

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As one moves down a straight-line, down-sloping demand curve, price elasticity will:

A. change from elastic, to unit elastic, then to inelastic. B. remain the same between any two points. C. change from inelastic, to elastic, then to unit elastic. D. change from unit elastic, to elastic, then to inelastic.

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