Suppose Seth and Nathan are college students with the same annual income, yet Seth pays half of the annual income tax that Nathan does
Which statement best summarizes a possible issue with this outcome from a principle of tax policy perspective? a. It violates the principle of vertical equity. b. It violates the principle of diagonal equity. c. It violates the principle of horizontal equity.
d. It violates the benefit principle.
c
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When using the principle of comparative advantage, the person with no absolute advantage should perform the job in which he or she has
a. a 50 percent disadvantage. b. a 75 percent disadvantage. c. a lesser disadvantage. d. been trained.
Assumptions for economic theories and models should be
A) rejected if they are not totally realistic. B) logical rather than empirically testable. C) simple and reasonable rather than complex. D) maintained until overwhelming evidence to the contrary occurs.
Suppose that the government reports the following information on violent crime in a certain area: there were 1100 incidents in the base year (2007) and 1155 incidents in 2008 . The person collecting these data wants to present them in the form of an index. What is the index for 2008?
a. 100.0 b. 110.0 c. 116.0 d. 105.0 e. 95.2
Suppose a country has only a sales tax. Now suppose it replaces the sales tax with an income tax that includes a tax on interest income. This would make equilibrium
a. interest rates and the equilibrium quantity of loanable funds rise. b. interest rates rise and the equilibrium quantity of loanable funds fall. c. interest rates fall and the equilibrium quantity of loanable funds rise. d. interest rates and the equilibrium quantity of loanable funds fall.