Beginning in 1985, federal income taxes were ________ to the cost of living, so that government no longer got a larger percentage when inflation pushed incomes into higher brackets while the tax rates stayed the same.
A) raised
B) added
C) indexed
D) lowered
E) flat-rate
Ans: C) indexed
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A) John F. Kennedy B) Lyndon B. Johnson C) Richard Nixon D) Ronald Reagan
_____ appoints the heads of the executive departments within the executive branch of the federal government
A) The chief justice B) The Senate C) The president D) The vice president E) Congress
Compared to the United States, European environmental policy tends to be
A. more flexible. B. more uniform. C. less comprehensive. D. less client centered. E. enforced mostly by lawsuits.
Air pollution and water pollution are more often __________ problems than __________ problems
A) global, bilateral B) global, unilateral C) regional, global D) long-term, short-term