What led people to complain about higher taxes in the 1970s?
A) Standards of living stagnated while taxes continued to rise.
B) Wages were rising faster than the tax rate.
C) Budget surpluses indicated that the tax burden was too high.
D) Decreased military spending should have led to an accompanying tax cut.
E) The tax system was becoming too complicated for the average citizen, so the idea of a switch to a flat tax, which would lower everyone's tax rate, became popular.
A
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a. representational federalism b. fiscal federalism c. competitive federalism d. cooperative federalism
The difference between de facto and de jure segregation is that
A. the former results from private choices, the latter from public law. B. the former results from public law, the latter from private choices. C. the former existed in the past, the latter continues in the present. D. the former continues in the present, the latter existed in the past. E. the former deals with perceptions, the latter deals with verified facts.
The ratification of the __________ Amendment in ____ provided an opportunity for the Supreme Court to reconsider the relationship between the Bill of Rights and state and local governments
a. Eleventh; 1798 b. Twelfth; 1804 c. Fourteenth; 1868 d. Sixteenth; 1913
Which ONE of the following options is not part of the AIDA toolbox?
a. raising awareness and combating customer perception biases b. investigating customer preferences for the product/service c. building desire to purchase a product or service d. convincing the customer to take actively seek out the product or service